Caravans full of silk, spices and jewellery passed along here, while ancient writers like Strabo and Pliny the Elder waxed ...

Conquered, the Greeks profited as translators, tutors and imperial sidekicks. Strabo’s “Geography,” written as Rome was ...

It’s not exactly an appealing descriptor. On top of that, the Roman geographer Strabo wrote that the Irish were “more savage ...

Strabo's Geography: A Translation for the Modern World Strabo A lively new translation of Strabo’s complete Geography—an encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CE—connecting it ...

Archaeologists have uncovered remarkable new finds at the ancient temple of Poseidon in Greece, revealing a much larger ...

The researchers succeeded in uncovering the 28-meter-long and nearly 9.5-meter-wide temple in its entirety, a monumental ...

By this means he found that the circumference of the earth was 250,000 stadia, according to Cleomedes, but Strabo says that it was 252,000 stadia. A discrepancy arises when we come to consider the ...

There's a famous utterance by Strabo, a Greek geographer of the late first century, B.C., who says that you can't go anywhere in the civilized world without encountering a Jew. And by his time ...

There are countless theories regarding the location of Alexander the Great's tomb. What does the evidence show?

Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and despised, placing it at the center stage of the dawn of history.

According to ancient myths, Dionysus, the ancient Greek god of wine, invaded India long before Alexander the Great was born.

In his Geography, Greek historian Strabo wrote of a queen called “Candace” who signed a peace treaty with the emperor Augustus. Candace, in fact, means “sister,” and was the title given to ...