Greek mythology makes mention of the mysterious Isles of the Blessed far to the west. What were these islands? Did they ...

The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) is one of the most famous last stands in history. However, the Spartans did not march to ...

Illustration of a Gaul playing the carnyx. Unknown author The Roman historian Diodorus Siculus similarly describes the trumpets of a "peculiar barbarian kind" used by Western European tribes.

According to Greek historians Strabo and Diodorus Siculus, work was continued by Necho II in the late sixth century BC, but he died before construction was completed. The Persian King Darius the ...

The only written references come much later, from scholars such as Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius, Strabo, and Flavius Josephus, all writing at a time after Babylon had been abandoned.

By the time the Greek writer Diodorus Siculus visited the valley's tombs (circa 60 B.C.) he wrote, "We found nothing there except the results of pillage and destruction." It's possible ...

Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC, described the Celts wearing 'shirts which have been dyed and embroidered in various colours'.

AMMAN — The sixth-century mosaic map of the Holy Land is not only an example of the Byzantine period artistry but a primary historical source about the regional geography. Towns and ecclesiastic ...