History is replete with vivid anecdotes that attest to the torturous origins of music. Reports on military...
Ancient
How loan forgiveness was handled thousands of years ago in the Near East and royal decrees. Introduction...
Romans financed their expansion and government operations using the resources taken from vanquished territories. By Kurt CobbResource...
Trading stations played an important role as the furthest outposts of Ancient Greek culture. By Dr. Colette...
Dictators were only supposed to be appointed so long as the Romans had to carry on wars...
Borrowing from the east and west, their culture and art was an amalgam easily identified as Parthian....
The neat labels of Greek text that accompany and identify many of the characters on the vase...
What we know about this figure discovered in Neferibresaneith’s tomb. What’s an Ushtabi? Ushabtis are figurines that...
These texts developed from spells that were first inscribed on scarabs and coffins at the end of...
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece...
On display at the British Museum, quite different from the Latin papyrus in terms of its size,...
Often referred to as the “Throne of the Gods”, few know of the history or function of...
As the last Ptolemaic heir of Alexander the Great, she remained committed to his policy of cultural...
Like modern slavery, it was an abusive and degrading institution. Slavery in ancient Rome differed from its...
At the heart of Roman conceptions of citizenship was a covenant between the individual citizen and the...
Cassius Dio is best known for his 80-volume Roman History. Introduction Cassius Dio (c. 164 – c. 229/235...
The city’s monuments (and their ruins) are cues for memory, discourse, and discovery. Views of Rome The...
Exploring discoveries and inventions made by the Chinese between about 200 and 1400 C.E. Introduction Over the...
The causes and attributes of the crisis changed throughout the decades between 134 and 44 BCE. Introduction...
Odysseus’s natural leadership, smarts, and cool head are exceptional, and he is entertainingly deceptive and tricky. Introduction...
Rome’s influence lives on in many ways today – in art, architecture and engineering, language and writing,...
Immediately following the deposition of Herod Archelaus in 6 CE as a client king, Judea was turned...
Following the installation of client kingdoms under the Herodian dynasty, the Province of Judea was wracked by...
Exploring believed what and the effect literal belief in myths had on given social orders. Introduction Anthropologists...
Ephialtes’ reforms are considered by Aristotle and modern scholars to mark the end of the Areopagite constitution....
The people of Athens commissioned Draco to devise a written law code and constitution, giving him the...
For many centuries explanations for disease were based not on science, but on religion, superstition, and myth....
Diseases have often influenced historical events, but they are neglected in the documentation of these events. Human...
The masonry techniques discussed here cover a broad chronological range from the second millennium B.C.E. to Late...
Aristotle argued that there were six general ways in which societies could be organized under political rule....