Nearchus, the Navigator, bridged East and West with a daring voyage that reshaped ancient maritime strategy and trade routes.

When we talk about ancient Greek colonies, many think of the spots across Europe, such as Syracuse in Italy, but which was ...

Four of his generals divided the empire between themselves ... part of what is today Albania was included in the Macedonian conquests. Greek is still spoken by a minority of people in the area.

As a political move, Ptolemy V married Cleopatra I Syra (204 – 176 BC), a princess of the Seleucid Empire, a Greek state in West Asia, considered a division of the Macedonian Empire. As follows, ...

The palace was the ceremonial hub for the Macedonian dynasty ... as the “First European.” Greek and Roman authors weren’t interested in the Persian Empire, he says — meaning that even ...

In Greece's Macedonia region ... one of history's greatest conquerors who toppled the Persian Empire and took Greek culture as far as Egypt and India in the fourth century BC.