One of the most important ancient cities in Afghanistan was discovered in 1964 at Ai Khanum, also in the northern region formerly known as Bactria ... Afghanistan's recent history," says Jawad ...

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI is a turn-based strategy 4X game that’ll take you through our history and beyond it. As you build up your empire through the Ancient Era, the Classical Era ...

Alexander the Great was the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon ... first to Roxana of Bactria, then to Stateira, the daughter of a Persian king, and finally to Parysatis, whose father ...

As Steve Mason argues in his seminal work Jews, Judaeans, Judaizing, Judaism: Problems of Categorization in Ancient History that there ... dissension in Bactria, and the other administrative ...

Tarn in his book ‘Greeks in Bactria and India’, to omit the Euthydemid dynasty from Hellenistic (Greek) history, as has usually been done ... of Pisidian mercenaries (from Pisidia, an ancient region ...

Alexander the Great was the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon ... widely considered to be one of the greatest and most successful military commanders in history. (Image: Simone Crespiatico) ...

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, ...

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that affected women.

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...