A detail from the frieze of the Treasury of the Siphians at Delphi depicting the Gods fighting...
Ancient
This bilingual papyrus containing magical spells and recipes dates from the early third century A.D. and is...
Madrid Codex (replica) in the Museum of the Americas, Madrid / Photo by Simon Burchell, Wikimedia Commons...
A Roman wax tablet and stylus / Photo by Peter van der Sluijs, Wikimedia Commons Exploring the...
A marble relief panel from Smyrna showing Roman slaves in chains. 200 CE. (Ashmolean Musuem, Oxford, UK)...
Page from a manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana. Three cowherds bring their cows to the river Yamuna...
Map of Egypt showing the major sites and settlements Looking at the choices the ancient Egyptians made in...
Mythical figurines from Nagada The rise of the city as an important institution can perhaps more confidently be...
Upper part of a gypsum statue of a Sumerian woman. The hands are folds in worship. The...
The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888), Lawrence Alma-Tadema. (Wikimedia Commons) Ancient Rome featured a myriad of, what could...
Terracotta amphora, c490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite a wealth of ancient writings, archaeological...
Pnyx hill in Athens by Qwqchris. / Wikimedia Commons In the matter of the dēmokratia (‘People-Power’) that the Greeks invented (the...
Arms and armors of a typical noble Frankish warrior, 5th-6th century / Photo by Altaipanther, Germanisches Nationalmuseum,...
The Celtic tribes were each ruled by their own kings, queens, or chiefs, and were famed for...
Alcibades being taught by Socrates, by François-André Vincent, 1776 / Musée Fabre, Wikimedia Commons Socrates’ most famous students before...
The rise of Zeus. By E.M. Berens / 05.21.2014 Cronus (Saturn) Cronus was the god of time...
The Erechtheum, western side, Acropolis, Athens, Greece / Photo by Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons Athens attained its Golden...
Spartan ruins / Photo by Ronny Siegel, Wikimedia Commons Spartan women enjoyed status, power, and respect that...
The Great Wall of China / Photo by Jakub Halun, Wikimedia Commons The concepts and technology of defensive...
The tattooed right hand of a Chiribaya mummy is displayed at El Algarrobal Museum, near the port...
Water wheel at Molino de la Albolafia, Córdoba / Photo by Elliott Brown, Wikimedia Commons We may assume...
A fragmented painting of a woman bearing offerings, from the Mycenaean palace at Tiryns. (Carole Raddato/Wikimedia Commons) Researchers found...
King Zhu of the Shang Dynasty Lights the Signal Beacons, a Perspective Picture / Museum of Fine...
Great Wall illustration from French translation of an 1843 book by Thomas Allorn / Wikimedia Commons Major Stone...
Bust of Pericles bearing the inscription “Pericles, son of Xanthippus, Athenian”. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original...
Proclaiming Claudius Emperor by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1867 / Wikimedia Commons The Praetorian Guards were the personal bodyguards of...
Earliest archaeological evidence of intestinal parasitic worms infecting the ancient inhabitants of Greece confirms descriptions found in...
Voynich Manuscript. / Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Wikimedia Commons Can we hope to find new remedies by...
Aeon-Uranus, Gaea, Carpi, Horae and Prometheus / Greco-Roman mosaic, Damascus Museum The ancient Greeks had several different...
The air god Shu, assisted by other gods, holds up Nut, the sky, as Geb, the earth,...