When Alexander the Great visited the tomb of Cyrus of Persia, he found it ransacked and ordered that the tomb be restored.

However, scientists could not agree on which tomb contained which member of the family - while the location of Alexander the Great's own tomb remains unknown. Last year, a study led by Antonios ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that the tomb of Philip II of Macedon lies within the Great Tumulus at Vergina, ...

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The various Greek authors who wrote about the Persians tended to depict them as decadent and weak-willed, ruled by a series of self-styled great kings ... in Iran, as Cyrus’s tomb.

Cyrus was buried in his capital city, Pasargadae, in a limestone tomb, between 540 and 530 BC. Throughout many conquests with the Persian Empire, his tomb was raided several times. One of the most ...

The following year, with Kottaridi as his assistant, Andronikos unsealed the unlooted tomb of Alexander IV, the son of Alexander the Great. “I was the first to catalog the items coming out of ...

In the present work, Tomb of Pope Alexander VII Study I, the artist has also included ... Extreme Advanced and severe damage; work is insecure and at great risk. Aaron Garber-Maikovska Untitled, 2018 ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience ...

Yet this was no luxurious family tomb, as might have been expected ... after Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s top generals, founded a new dynasty of pharaohs in 305 B.C. With the Ptolemaic ...