Erroneously known as the graveyard of empires, Afghanistan in fact served as the battlefield of the world.

Along a rocky mountain ridge in southern Tajikistan, two steep cliffs jut above the sloping Lyangurt Valley, where the rural village of Torbulok sits. Although the area is often dry, water ...

Customs, flavors and rituals linking food to the sacred and divine had an enormous upheaval during the time of Alexander the ...

The Apadana, which was used as a gathering hall for receptions, was the largest building in Persepolis. A relief on the stairway includes depictions of delegates to the Achaemenid royal court (left), ...

Dimitri Filippidis refers to “Alexander the Great as Greek and Macedonian, who spoke the Greek language and spread Greek ...

Afghanistan is included in this list. It is almost impossible to practice Christianity openly in this country. Those who ...

Victor Sarigiannides, the Greek-Russian archaeologist of Pontic descent who discovered the ancient city of Bactria. Credit: Wikipedia/hceebee CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Prominent Greek-Russian archaeologist of ...

When Alexander the Great arrived in Pakistan and India two very different civilizations confronted and were influenced by each other. The first anthropomorphic representations of Buddha were developed ...

Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), was a Macedonian king who ruled over an expansive empire that reached from Greece to the Gandharan regions of Pakistan.

Chicago Budrovich, Nicole. “Ancient Glass in the Getty Museum: History of the Collection.” In Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum, by Anastassios Antonaras ...