For children: When the Greeks, Shakas, Parthians, and Kushanas made a pitstop in ancient India
The Yuezhi tribes of Central Asia, who had pushed the Shakas into the Indian subcontinent, were the last to make their way ...
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Hannukah 2025
Hanukkah is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the ...
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Hoard of coins illuminates triumphant Maccabee campaign in 2nd-century-BCE Israel
A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan ...
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Battle of Raphia: How Did It Reshape Ancient Syria?
BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of Coele-Syria (modern Syria and Lebanon). The Battle of Raphia saw the Seleucid king ...
Greek Reporter21d
Alexander the Great’s Ideal of World Unity
the Byzantine Empire. Following Alexander’s rule, the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Empire, established by former generals of Alexander who then became world leaders, spread the idea of a limitless ...
Tehran Times25d
Fars province’s sole Parthian stone relief restored
At the time, Parthia was a satrapy (province) under Andragoras, a rebel against the Seleucid Empire. Under Mithridates I (r. c. 171–132 BC), the empire significantly expanded, seizing Media and ...
Wall Street Journal28d
In a New Age of Empire, Great Powers Aim to Carve Up the Planet
In 1945, the victorious Allied powers gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations, the foundation of a new global order that would make another world war impossible. The ...
Newsweek28d
NASA Tracking Empire State Building-Sized Asteroid Approaching
You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is zooming towards our planet this weekend. The asteroid, named 2024 ...
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Trump’s ‘Canceled’ Empire Makes Comeback Rivaling Political Rise
Trump’s ‘Canceled’ Empire Makes Comeback Rivaling Political Rise Trump Organization is on deal spree, especially in Middle East Income from golf and resort properties soared 60% since 2016 ...
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How the Samuels, one of Tamil Nadu’s last Jewish families, keep the flame alive
The story goes that in 164 BCE, after reclaiming the Second Temple in Jerusalem from the Seleucid Empire, the Maccabees found there was only a small flask of pure olive oil with which they could ...
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A Reflection on time
It is to marvel at Jewish history itself. At the time that the Seleucid empire paganized the Temple in Jerusalem, its rulers didn’t predict a day when their own version of paganism — revering ...
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Seleucid Empire
NancyOnNorwalk.com was conceived as the place to go for Norwalk residents to get the real, unvarnished story about what is going on in and around their city. NancyOnNorwalk does not intend to be a ...