The mysterious tomb of Alexander the Great may not have been found yet, but do we at least know what it looked like?

While Confucius traveled with his disciples to various feudal states, Greek historian Herodotus traversed mountains and seas ...

Historian William Dalrymple, speaking at the India Today Conclave, challenged the widely accepted belief that China dominated ancient global trade. He argued that India, not China, was the key ...

Strabo’s rather egregious overestimate of the eastern extension of Asia may have reached the ears of the mathematician ...

As a mythical place, Thule is less known than its other Greco-Roman counterparts like Atlantis, Hyperborea, or Lemuria. However, that has not stopped it from forever cementing its place in the minds ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, and traveling.

The geography of Strabo by Strabo Publication date 1982 Topics Geography, Ancient, Ancient geography Publisher Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : W. Heinemann Collection ...

If we accept the account of Strabo that Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the earth as 252,000 stadia, the circumference would be 24,662 miles, and the polar diameter 7,850 miles-only 50 ...

The Recent Excavations of Strabo's Well and the “Tomb of Osiris” ...

However, since this spot was much farther away from Eretria than the one Strabo had described, most archaeologists dismissed it as a possible site of the temple.

The description offered by Strabo, who visited Alexandria some 20 years after Caesar, suggests that if the Library of Alexandria was damaged or destroyed, it was quickly rebuilt.