The Yuezhi tribes of Central Asia, who had pushed the Shakas into the Indian subcontinent, were the last to make their way ...

BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of Coele-Syria (modern Syria and Lebanon). The Battle of Raphia saw the Seleucid king ...

This kingdom started in 167 B.C., when Jewish inhabitants of the area rose up against the Seleucid Empire and succeeded in taking over parts of it. During the first century B.C., the Roman ...

And the two major areas that survived down to the first century B.C. would have been the Syrian kingdom, the Seleucid kingdom, and the Ptolemaic kingdom which survived in Egypt, which was finally ...

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 ...