By Blood of DorusThe athletes at Panhellenic games competed not only on their own behalf but they represented their community as well. The Panhellenic games were the festivals of the Greek poleis and polities, which sent official delegations to bring their offerings to the gods, to represent the community at the games, and to applaud their champions. The victorious […]

By Rossella Lorenzi Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, died from swallowing a lethal drug cocktail and not from a snake bite, a new study claims. According to Christoph Schäfer, a German historian and professor at the University of Trier, the legendary beauty queen was unlikely to have committed suicide by letting an asp — an Egyptian cobra — sink […]

Washington, May 20 (ANI): A massive, headless statue of a Greek king has been found in the ruins of an ancient Egyptian temple, indicating that the structure could be the final resting place of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, experts say. Archaeologists have been excavating around the temple of Taposiris Magna in hopes of finding the couple’s graves. The black granite […]

Photo: Mathieu Rocheleau, Canadian episkopic mission of Xanthos-Letoon in Lycia, modern Turkey The “Stele” of the Kytenians was discovered at Xanthos, in which the latter the latter appeal to the Xanthians for help in restoring the walls of their city. In the Stele we find references to the Heracleid origins of the Kings Ptolemy and Antiochus. J. Bousquet (1988: 14-16, […]

Ptolemy Soter, first as governor under Alexander and subsequently as king, was the founder of the splendid edifices on the Bruchium, many of which were only finished by his son Philadelphus. He expended but little on his own palace, for he was wont to say that a king should be lavish to others and not to himself. He was a […]

New finds span time An incomplete Graeco-Roman statue of an athlete in Alexandria and an enormous collection of prehistoric artefacts in Fayoum are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the Shallalat Gardens next to the fortress of Mohamed Ali in Alexandria, a Greek archaeological mission has discovered what is thought may be a statue of Alexander […]

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Two thousand years after her death Cleopatra still has political relevance, and arguments over her racial heritage – was Cleopatra black or white? – inspire fierce debate, with ‘black’ variously defi ned as meaning of Egyptian origin, or a person from non-Mediterranean Africa, or any person of colour, and ‘white’ usually being equated with Greek. Th ese defi nitions in […]

Yesterday we had another lecture hold in the amphitheater of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Skople where the two infamous Engineers Tentov and Boshevski promoted their Rosetta Stone Hoax to the public, on the scope of indulging to the mind of the average FYROMian a sense of false pride based on his alleged “ancient roots”. The result was to be expected. Their […]

An excellent essay written by Mr Miltiades E. Bolaris with editorial assistance of Phoibos M. Bolaris and Hephaestion M. Bolaris which describe in details everything about Rosetta Stone and the falsehoods of Tentov-Boshevski’s claims. You can read all their amazing work in the following link. http://issuu.com/history.of.macedonia/docs/boshevski_and_tendov_s_egyptian_illusions