West of Thebes, Orchomenos preserves a Bronze Age story of rival kings, sacred tombs, and a palatial center uncovered beneath later foundations, set in a landscape reshaped by vast drainage works. The ...
Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...
BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to Southeast Europe. The Achaemenid Empire controlled a vast area with ...