[SunkenCiv]

Alexander the Great was Macedonian, but as conqueror of Greece, he also relied on Greek troops, both from Greece and Anatolia, and from various parts of the former Persian Empire, as Greek mercenaries and other Greek forces had worked for the Persians. I'm only saying that as a "rapist of historical truth." ;')

[SunkenCiv]

Archaeologica is cookin' this week. Anyway, this is the first really interesting development in the Gulf States in quite a long while, IMHO.

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[Allegra]

Ping!

[metesky]

What you said, SC. In his day the Greeks didn’t consider Phillip and Alexander Greeks at all but heathen barbarians.

[wildbill]

As I recall, when Alexander retreated from India he chose to march across a stretch of Persian desert while his fleet was to hug the coast and meet them somewhere along the Persian gulf. Many of the Greeks died because of this miscalculation.

I wonder if this site might have been a stopover for the fleet.