And beneath those ancient ruins they uncovered a pot — overflowing with Persian gold coins. The hoard was seemingly left there by a soldier who — for some reason, probably a tragic one — was ...

Nemrut Dağ stands at a crossroads where Persia met Greece in the ancient world ... locals always knew of the existence of the Nemrut ruins, it wasn’t until 1881 that they became known to ...

Archaeologists discovered the hoard of Persian coins at the site of ancient Greek city in what ... In 2023, archaeologists excavating the ruins made what is possibly their most exciting discovery ...

Of these, one, the ruins of Gedi, an ancient city of considerable extent ... Leakey's opinion that the ruins may be those of an Arab or Persian settlement of considerable antiquity, the first ...

(The ruins of another ancient city called Salamis ... The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states ...

When geographer Sven Hedin set out from the city of Khotan (today Hotan) in western China, he expected to find ruins from an ancient town ... century expeditions in Persia and along the banks ...