Antiochus IV Epiphanes, (Greek: “God Manifest”) also called Antiochus Epimanes (the Mad), (born c. 215 BCE—died 164 BCE ) was a Seleucid kin...

 Arachne, the spider woman  Arachne,  ( Αράχνη ,  her name meaning spider in Greek ) , was a beautiful woman that had a great talent in weav...

The story of Zeus and Europa is one of the most famous stories of the Hellenic Tradition-the love story between The King of the Gods and a b...

 The Indo-Greek invasion which happened after the fall of the Mauryan Empire was an important event in Indian history. In this video, we tal...

In antiquity, Gandhara was one of the most deeply-rooted hubs of Buddhism, and scholars have attempted to search for any possible encounters...

 Miletus, Byzantine Palation, Turkish Balat, ancient Greek city of western Anatolia, some 20 miles (30 km) south of the present city of Söke...

In the wake of Alexander the Great, the traditions of Hellenism and Buddhism thought came into close contact in Central Asia and India. Lee ...

For centuries, Bactria - a region shared by modern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan - was part of the Hellenistic world. Conquered by...

  Coins form a significant corpus of evidence that allow the archaeologists, historians, and numismatists to reconstruct the past. Coins are...

 In Iraq, 29 kilometers south of modern Baghdad, lies the site of Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, which rose, flourished, and dwindled away between ...

With the collapse of the Mauryan Empire, the rulers of Greco-Bactria would seize the opportunity to invade India in approximately 185 B.C.E....

This article contains five short videos about the history of the Indo-Greeks in India. All credits go to the YouTube channel Glimpses.  

With no mass media, ancient coins functioned as powerful tools for propaganda due to their portability and potential to circulate widely....

  From all the admins here in Greek Asia Blogspot,we wish you a Happy and Lucky New Year. May Health, Happiness and Prosperity fill your hom...

   (Photo: Nikolay Sudarev ) Archaeologists have unearthed a silver medallion depicting the Greek Goddess Aphrodite in a 2100-year-old grave...

   A 2,200-year-old Greek sling bullet may have been used against Jews in Hanukkah story.  Found in Yavne and bearing inscription ‘Victory f...

  In ancient times, trade between the Indian subcontinent and Greece flourished with silk, spices and gold being traded. The Greeks invaded ...