AÂ “prothesis” scene, the lying-in-state of the deceased on a bed, surrounded by his family members, some of...
Ancient
Image of Timbuktu manuscripts / Wikimedia Commons The history of illuminated manuscripts goes back to antiquity. In this...
Papyrus Bodmer VIII / Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Wikimedia Commons What did books look like in antiquity? In...
Celsus Library, Ephesus / Photo by the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Wikimedia Commons How were books stored and...
M0004635 Fragment of bas-relief in the from of a temple / Wellcome Library Ancient Greek philosophy and...
A Neolithic (3500 BCE) skull showing evidence of a trephination operation – the removal of a part of the cranium to...
A letter to the dead, addressed to the ‘excellent spirit, the Count, Overseer of the Army’.  First Intermediate...
Pompeii’s monuments include the Arch of Tiberius. (Francesco Lastrucci) Examining the development and growth of ancient urban...
Wooden Ship-Cart Model, late 13th–early 12th century B.C. Wood with traces of paint, 5 3/16 × 15...
Anglo-Saxon burial site at the Barrow Clump, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. / Photo by Rexfeatures What is the source...
Image via learnerlog.org, Creative Commons Out of Africa and gradually stretching around the globe. By Emma Groeneveld...
A view of the millstones and oven of a bakery (Pistrinium) in the Roman town of Pompeii which was buried in...
Olive trees on the Greek island of Anaxos. Cereals / Wikimedia Commons The prosperity of the majority...
Coming together for a solstice feast in ancient Peru. Robert Gutierrez, Author provided How did civilization emerge from small...
Achilles at the Court of King Lycomedes.  The sarcophagus had been sawed up to four plates which were...
Polychrome relief of Kagemni in his own mastaba, Saqqara, Egypt. Kagemni was a vizier of pharaohs Djedkare Isesi...
A map of the political structure of Greece in the Archaic Age (ca. 750 – 490 BC). / Photo...
The first civilizations formed in river valleys, and were characterized by a caste system and a strong...
Map of the Persian Achaemenid Empire at its greatest extent under the reigns of Darius the Great and Xerxes.  Inspired by Historical Atlas of Georges...
Portrait of Alexios III Komnenos in The Romance of Alexander the Great, 1300s, made in Trebizond, Turkey. Tempera, gold,...
A family migrating to western US in 1886. Marion Doss/Flickr, Creative Commons Humans evolved in Africa, spread across the world, and then...
This war scene shown in a temple frieze in the Kailashanatha Temple depicts the use of chariots and elephants in warfare during the...
Map of the Indo-Saka – Indo-Scythian Kingdoms / Image by World Imaging, Wikimedia Commons Homonid activity in...
By Arjun Walia / 12.08.2017 Ancient civilizations are a fascinating topic, and it’s clear we have so much...
By Preston Chesser The loss of the ancient world’s single greatest archive of knowledge, the Library of...
The Achaean League was a Hellenistic period confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese between 280 BCE and 146 BCE. / Image...
Jerash is famous for its well-preserved Greco-Roman columns, seen here on the ancient Jordanian city’s main street....
An extinct strain of the human Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been discovered in Bronze Age human...
Give a man a ploughshare, and he’ll turn it into a sword. Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH An elite class...
Detail from a bell krater depicting the Delphic oracle atop her tripod. / The British Museum via...