Tag: Alexander the Great
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Seven Network Finally Apologizes for Saying FYROM is Home of Alexander the Great and King Philip II
Following an outpour of major Greek organizations condemning the blunder over the past several weeks, Kerry Stokes AC, Seven Network Chairman, finally responded to the issue in a letter addressed to the Greek Embassy in Australia. “Greece can proudly claim Alexander the Great as one of their own. We apologize. It was not our network’s intention…
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Pakistan unearths the city defeated by Alexander the Great
The ruins that Italian archaeologists have unearthed in modern-day Barikot, in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, once belonged to Bazira, the city conquered by Alexander the Great. In short, Italian archaeologists working in the Italian-Pakistani excavations in the Swat valley did not go on vacation this summer. Bazira is mentioned in classical sources as having been put…
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‘Greeks’ Exhibition to Open June 1 at National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.
“The Greeks is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Greek history and culture to visit North America in a generation,” said Kathryn Keane, vice president of Exhibitions at the National Geographic Society. “From their Bronze Age beginnings to the height of classical civilization, the Greeks and the traditions they founded continue to have a…