The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the ...

The Story of the Trojan War The tale of the Trojan War is perhaps the most famous story of ancient Greek mythology ... On the interactive map on the home page, the levels are represented by ...

It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed the Greek city-states into its own empire in 146 BC ... During the 5th and 6th centuries BC, the ancient Olmec civilization was coming ...

Alexander the Great founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three continents, covering 2 million square miles. There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’.

Alexander the Great founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three continents, covering 2 million square miles. There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’.