For example, Diodorus of Sicily wrote of them: “While there are many Arabian tribes who use the desert as pasture, the Nabataeans far surpass the others in wealth, although they are not much ...

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 ...

The Greek historian Herodotus did not mention them, either. The only written references come much later, from scholars such as Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius, Strabo, and Flavius Josephus ...

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'.

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 ...