TEHRAN - Nagarechi Hill situated in Nahavand country of Hamedan province is emerging as a pivotal archaeological site that ...

The ancient Greek ideal of World Unity is manifested in the conquests of Alexander the Great aiming to unite the world through Hellenization.

TEHRAN - The Fars province’s sole-surviving Parthian-era stone relief has recently been restored to preserve its historical ...

Explore the archaeological site of Europos, an ancient Macedonian city located near Pella. Excavations reveal insights into ...

It was just a minor skirmish, hardly worth a mention. In a small village in one of the Seleucid (Syrian-Greek) Empire’s more remote provinces, a local priest refused to obey the local ...

A brief history of Israel ...

A coin hoard dating back about 2,100 years, during the time of the Jewish Hasmonean kings, has been discovered at a site in the Jordan Valley.

This kingdom started in 167 B.C., when Jewish inhabitants of the area rose up against the Seleucid Empire and succeeded in taking over parts of it. During the first century B.C., the Roman ...

Haifa University team finds cache of 160 extremely rare coins - dated to 80/79 BCE, during the reign of Judah Maccabee's grand-nephew - near Alexandrion Fortress, north of Jericho ...

The Festival of Lights commemorates the victory of a group of Jewish warriors led by Judah Maccabee over the Greek Seleucid Empire. King Antiochus IV Epiphanes imposed harsh measures to enforce ...

Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday, commemorates the Maccabean Revolt, where Jewish warriors defeated the Seleucid Empire in 165 BC. The Israeli hostage families condemned Netanyahu in a statement ...