After the death of Alexander the Great, a eunuch named Philetaerus established the ancient Greek city of Pergamon a major ...

The start of imperial Rome is officially dated to 27 BCE, when Gaius Octavius Caesar was awarded the name Augustus, signaling ...

John Glubb Pasha was a distinguished British officer. He participated in the wars of the British Empire during its last half-century in Europe and ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani met with senior U.S. State Department officials on Tuesday in New York, two sources ...

When Alexander the Great visited the tomb of Cyrus of Persia, he found it ransacked and ordered that the tomb be restored.

The rapid opening-up of Syria has seen a geographical shift in economic power, stoking tensions in the ethnically and ...

King Esarhaddon ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BCE. He was the third ruler of the Sargonid Dynasty, the ...