A hodgepodge of East and West, Mithridates’ Pontic Empire emerges as a compelling possibility of what Alexander's empire could've been.

The map, a replica of “Thraciae Veteris Typus” by Flemish cartographer Abraham Ortelius, was first published in 1585 in the ...

Researchers recently found one of the many lost Holy Land cities in Jordan. The team used maps and field surveys to identify ...

There are also Greek fests in Lincoln Square and Lincoln Park, Ribfest, the 57th Street Art Fair in Hyde Park, a free environmental fest in Welles Park and Hard Core Cider Fest in Rogers Park.

In this challenging context, multiculturalism offers both a normative compass and a practical road map for strengthening ...

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

Today, Google Maps uses the term Persian Gulf ... it was referred to exclusively as the ‘Sinus Persicus’ [Persian Gulf in Greek]. The statement noted that until around 1960, even Arab ...

Classical Greek geographers, including Herodotus and Ptolemy ... with Tehran pushing back firmly against any efforts to erase the term “Persian” from the map. Iran has even taken drastic measures in ...

Trump's bid to call the Persian Gulf the 'Arabian Gulf' has united Iranians in outrage, threatening diplomacy and igniting a historic naming dispute.

The Greek historian Flavius Arrianus preserved a summary ... Even European colonial powers, including the British Royal Navy, used "Persian Gulf" in their official maps and guides from 1868 onward.

In that period, both the names Persian and Arabian Gulf appear in texts. However, the latter referred to an area that roughly equated to the Red Sea. The world maps of the Greek historians and ...

The Persian Gulf is not just a name ... In the fifth century BCE, Greek historian Herodotus called it “Sinus Persicus,” and Roman geographer Ptolemy’s maps recorded it as “Persicus Sinus.” During the ...