AMMAN — On the foothills of the East Bank is located the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1500 BC) site Pella. Pella was a hub for trade with Egypt and Cyprus, Anatolia and Babylonia. Significant movements of ...

Archaeologists in northern Greece have unearthed a monumental ancient tomb, believed to be the largest of its kind ever found in Greece, in Pella, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a massive tomb in the northern Greek town of Pella, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia and birthplace of Alexander the Great. The eight-chambered tomb dates to ...

Behind him soar mountains that hide the gold mines of Alexander the Great, his most famous pupil. I whisper into one of his parabolic discs — a stone shaped like some ancient satellite dish — and hear ...

In ancient Macedonia, the boisterous city of Pella was a pulsing magnet for talent from all over Greece. Euripides went there to write and die; top artists and scholars abounded. King Philip II was a ...