Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and ...

Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Lisa Irene Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and ...

Ancient author Diodorus Siculus reports that Alexander preferred Hephaestion above everyone else, even claiming that ...

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.

From the fifth to third centuries BCE, the Gallic tribes of central Europe were among the continent’s most fearsome warriors.

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'.

Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Diodorus Siculus claimed that Atlas was a legendary king of Mauretania, a mathematician, and an astronomer who discovered the spherical nature of the stars ...

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.

Centuries after the first golden coffins were taken to Europe, ancient Egyptian mummies still vividly capture people’s imaginations. Perhaps we’re awed by the grandeur of their rituals and tradition.