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It has been revealed that Ancient Greek theaters used movable wooden stages some 2,000 years ago following Japanese research.
Workers at the Egyptian port city of Alexandria have recovered 22 massive stone blocks that were used thousands of years ago ...
Early Christianity engaged Hellenistic culture generally, and more specifically Greek philosophy, from the end of the first century on.
A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.
A stamped tile fragment with part of the name of Odysseus dates to the Hellenistic period. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture ...
Eucratides I was a monarch of the Hellenistic period who ruled the Greco-Bactrian kingdom, located in present-day Afghanistan, between 172 and 145 B.C. Coming from the Diodotid dynasty, which had been ...
Sling stones and arrowheads found in and around the Greek fortress attest to pitched battles fought by Greek and Jewish defenders against those Jews opposed to Hellenistic control of Jerusalem.
Gregory Callaghan, Union College, will present "Seeking Sponsors in Hellenistic Greece: Why and How Greek Communities Embraced Attalid Patronage." At the end of the 3rd century BCE, the Aetolian ...