The Persians, the ancient ... cities led by Sparta, according to the World History Encyclopedia. When Alexander died in 323 B.C., his empire was divided among his generals. Much of the former ...

[Related: These ‘fake’ ancient Roman coins might actually be real.] Thucydides recounted that between 430 BCE. and 427 BCE., a group of Persian sympathizers from the city of Colophon had ...

The coins appear to be Persian darics, a category of gold ... After reading about the hoard of gold coins found in the ancient Greek city of Notion, discover the mystery that surrounds Alexander ...

The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid, or Persian, Empire that historians say ...

The ongoing excavation of an ancient Greek city in western Turkey has uncovered ... when tension was high between the Greek civilization and the Persian Empire. The newly found coins are from ...

unearthed a hoard of gold coins traced to the Persian Empire in the ancient Greek coastal city of Notion. Rattè, also the former director of the university’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology ...