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Kuwaiti-Italian archaeologists uncover 2,300-year-old Hellenistic courtyard on Failaka Island • Feb. 17, 2025, 9:59 PM ET (Jerusalem Post)
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Date 323 BCE - 30

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Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Evagoras
king of Salamis

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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.
Ancient Greece