Archaeologists have found tiny pieces of ancient bread from hunter-gatherers that predate agriculture by about 4,000 years....
Month: May 2019
Soil is a valuable resource that needs to be carefully managed as it is easily damaged. Introduction...
By imbuing Gazans with mythical bravery, the left is failing the task of recognising Palestinian humanity. By...
The Westerners managed to maintain a political presence in the region until 1291 CE but were constantly...
According to historical sources and archaeological facts, Magdala was an important town with social and economic development....
Painstaking reconstruction of fragments of text has revealed the working draft of an ancient Jewish calendar and...
Five of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of Bible were found to be forged. The...
Since Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, Western powers have hit Moscow with economic sanctions, hoping to put...
The alliance’s name derives from the island of Delos, where the League originally housed its treasury. By...
The League gave Sparta protection from uprisings within its own borders and eventually secured its dominance in...
Ratified by the United States Senate unanimously without debate on June 7, 1797, taking effect June 10,...
Charles V blamed the revolt on their radical ideology rather than the harsh realities of living a...
The Albigensian Crusade was the first crusade to specifically target heretic Christians – the Cathars of southern...
As the political boundaries of the Roman Empire diminished and collapsed in the West, Christianity spread beyond...
The first Hindu temples were built from rock-cut caves. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Hindu architecture evolved over...
Ellora (also known as Elura and, in ancient times, as Elapura) is a sacred site in Maharastra,...
Reconstruction’s influence of and effects upon religion, education, industry, and taxation. Organized Religion Freedmen were very active...
The of the aftermath of the Civil War and the brief attempt to “reconstruct” the U.S. South...
With the establishment of the medieval towns, Italian city-states and maritime republics, the patriciate was a formally...
According to Livy, the first 100 men appointed as senators by Romulus were referred to as “fathers”...
The nature of the krypteia very much reflects the roots of its name. By Brandon D. Ross...
Thucydides placed Brasidas’s Homeric ending in a singularly admirable light. By Nathan A. JenningsNATO Planner, Afghanistan In...
In modern society, we are used to political art. One hundred years ago today, fighting raged in...
One of the great riddles of modern times is why a 500-year portrait of a Florentine housewife...
While the weathly and powerful are coddled with public largesse, the rest of us are thrown into...
America’s elected leaders haven’t ignored equality since 2000. They’ve made it spectacularly worse. By Sam Pizzgati The...
As Leonardo da Vinci found centuries ago, scholars of art, design, engineering and science can work together...
Dead five centuries, Leonardo retains a rock star’s fame, well known around the world by just one...
It was a frequently stated virtue of Roman emperors, and was personified as a deity—Virtus. Virtus was...
In philosophy, the notion of virtue played a central role in ethical theory up until the Enlightenment....