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

A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan ...

At the time, Parthia was a satrapy (province) under Andragoras, a rebel against the Seleucid Empire. Under Mithridates I (r. c. 171–132 BC), the empire significantly expanded, seizing Media and ...

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

However, in 167 BCE, the army of the Seleucid empire of King Antiochus IV Epiphanes conquered the kingdom of Judah and took over the Temple, turning it into a place of worship for the Greek god ...

Generations later, Antiochus IV Epiphanes rules the Seleucid Empire 175-164 BC. To consolidate his power, he institutes a program of religious assimilation which forbids Jews from practicing the Law.

whose founder had inherited the eastern tranche of the empire of Alexander the Great. The Nabataeans held off numerous Seleucid attacks, even inflicting considerable damage on their assailants ...

The occupying power was the Roman Empire, which had conquered the land ... Hanukkah, commemorating the victory of the Jews over their Seleucid-Greek occupiers in 2nd century BCE Judea is a ...

The Hasmonean dynasty, established in the 2nd century BCE, represents a period of Jewish autonomy following the Maccabean Revolt against Seleucid rule ... a glimpse into the expansion of the Roman ...