Egyptian hieroglyphics depict the pouring out of beer / Wikimedia Commons Women held many important and influential...
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The Mar Saba monastery well hidden in the Kidron canyon in Yehuddah Desert / Photo by Hedva...
One of the churches in Mamshit. (Creative Commons) The incense route was a path spanning more than...
Gaius Gracchus Weeping Before his Fathers Statue, engraved by B.Barloccini, 1849 Tribunes protected the plebs from any...
Romulus and Remus with the Capitoline Wolf / Photo by CellarDoor85, Wikimedia Commons A meager beginning of...
The history of Rome is a case study in just how much power can corrupt a person,...
This stone block portrays Akhenaten as a sphinx, and was originally found in the city of Amarna/Akhetaten....
Ancient Roman lead water pipe, 1st-3rd century CE / Wellcome Library, Wikimedia Commons Lead touched many areas...
Neolithic Banpo Village, Xi’an, China, flourished 5,000-3,000 BCE. / Photo by Ian Armstrong, Flickr, Creative Commons Chinese...
The Sacred Way at Delphi with the remains of the Athenians’ Treasury The Delphic Oracle belonged to...
Early agrarian women—like these murdered in what is now western France some 6500 years ago—may have been...
Tauroctony statue / Photo by Carole Raddato, Creative Commons Mithraism was a mystery cult in the Roman...
A wall of the triclinium, traditionally interpreted to represent the stages of initiation to the cult. Silenus...
Handscroll, ink and color on silk, 24.4 x 343.8 cm / British Library Exploring some of the...
A fresco by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919 CE) depicting Roman senator Cicero (106-43 BCE) denouncing the conspirator Catiline...
A Maitraka copper plate / Wikimedia Commons Archaeological evidence suggests that copper was first used between 8,000...
Desecrated Christian icons in Turkey / Photo by Georges Jansoone JoJan, Göreme Valley Open Air Museum, Cappadocia,...
Brysa Hill ruins / Creative Commons Genocide is often viewed as a particular feature of our own...
Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores of a...
Alexandria – View of ruins of the Serapeum from Pompey’s Pillar / Photo by Daniel Mayer, Wikimedia...
Drunken Old Woman. Late 3rd century BCE. Hellenistic Sculpture / Photo by Evergreen State College, Creative Commons...
Mosaic of amphorae being unloaded from a ship, Ostia / Southampton University, Creative Commons The trade networks...
Hundreds of ancient gold coins were unearthed in the basement of a demolished theater in northern Italy....
The charred papyrus scroll recovered from Herculaneum is preserved in 12 trays mounted under glass. Here is...
Ancient Roman inscription from Marseille (France) / Photo by Rossignol Benoît, Musée Calvet, Wikimedia Commons Quaestor to...
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi / Photo by tamara semina, Wikimedia Commons The fact that the...
Cicero Denounces Catiline, fresco by Cesare Maccari, 1882-1888 / Wikimedia Commons Examining Cicero’s views on the construction...
Bust carved by by Victor Wager from a model by Paul Montford, University of Western Australia, Crawley,...
This ancient Greek fresco, known as The Toreador, was found on the Greek island of Crete. The...
Procopius of Caesarea, Creative Commons It has been a subject of much debate what Procopius actually thought...