Working out how many people lived in ancient Egypt is far from an easy task. By Dr. Steven...
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The location of towns and cities in ancient Egypt was dictated by two principal factors. By Dr. Steven...
The United States and European powers had grown increasingly dissatisfied with treaties following the First Opium War....
Western powers tried to gain unfettered access to Chinese products and markets for European and U.S. trade....
How a research team identified parasites in ‘hygiene sticks’ that travellers on the Silk Road effectively used...
The Silk Road provided a conduit not only for silk, but also offered a very important path...
On October 29, 1969, an experiment at UCLA sparked a communication revolution, the implications of which are...
The record is unique in European history and, packed full of statistics and snippets which reveal details...
Heraldry began on the mid-12th century CE battlefield as an easy means to identify medieval royalty and...
The great commercial and trading connections between Mesopotamia and Dilmun were strong and profound. Introduction Dilmun, or Telmun,[2]...
During the Holocaust, the remaining Hasidic centres in Eastern Europe were destroyed and the Hasidim who lived there...
These networks formed as a result of the dispersal of Jewish society over great distances starting in...
Communism has been one of the most influential economic theories of all times; recognizing its influence is...
Medvedev’s critical portrayal of the Soviet Union was powerful, persuasive and principled. Zhores Medvedev was not crazy....
Kyiv was abandoned by the Nazis in November 1943, allowing the Soviet authorities to return to the...
Early Vikings wouldn’t understand nationalism – the secret to their success was to embrace other cultures. The...
Many white supremacists who have turned to an ancient heathen religion known most commonly as Odinism. By...
Even in a male-dominated society, Viking women were far from powerless. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction Although women in the Viking Age...
Viking Age Scandinavians almost exclusively made applied art – aesthetically appealing and useful. By Emma GroeneveldHistorian Introduction...
Woodrow Wilson may have been one of our hardest-working chief executives and by the fall of 1919,...
Politics can sometimes turn the best of friends into the worst of enemies. Such was the fate...
An unlikely combination of artists, medieval historians, philosophers and scientists have converged to create an exhibition of...
A new study posits the woman was licking brushes covered with pigments of lapis lazuli, a rare...
Hernán Cortés owed his conquest of the Aztecs to his expedition’s unknown, unseen secret weapon: the smallpox...
Miss Betty Cooper may not be “well known” to modern historians, but the ad claims that she...
Looking beyond an initial impression to dissect what is happening beyond the surface in particular historical contexts....
The Kingdom of Jerusalem did, in fact, make its own important cultural contributions. On 15 July 1099,...
Modern Taoists in China (and elsewhere) worship many gods at private altars and in public ceremonies which...
The relationship between church and state is the institutional form of the relationship between the religious and political spheres. This...
The Turks absorbed, adapted and modified the cultures of conquered lands and their peoples. Introduction Ottoman culture evolved...