The reputation of Chinese silk spread so that it became highly desired across the empires of the...
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The Amorites occupied large parts of southern Mesopotamia from the 21st century BCE to the end of...
Human habitation of the land of Canaan goes far back with both Cro-magnon and Neanderthal skeletons having...
It began as a power struggle between Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV in 1076. Introduction...
Did one of Rome’s wisest and most revered emperors benefit from an ancient precursor of cognitive psychotherapy?...
The laws aided and legitimized the political power of the aristocracy and allowed them to consolidate their...
An embarrassing end to a career and ironic end to a life. By Gina K. Logue Roy...
The Roman Empire splintered into three separate political entities: the Gallic Empire, the Roman Empire, and the...
With its novel vignettes and its use of a camera obscura in the production of the plates,...
This followed a long period of tension and violence, marked by the first Jewish uprising which ended...
The outcome was the formation of the Hasmonean Dynasty, an autonomous Jewish rule over Palestine that would...
The humiliating failure of the vaunted Maginot Line thrilled the vast majority of Germans, who adored their...
The years 1816 to 1819 saw the last wave of immigration into the United States that basically...
The history of discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture and the class action lawsuits by...
Iconic children’s books and popular media that Gen Xers grew up with are riddled with damaging Native...
The 1830 Indian Removal Act led to the displacement of the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee...
While contemporary laser removal techniques are only around forty years old, efforts to erase or rewrite tattoos...
The tools, called “bone combs,” resemble hair combs with their grooved edges. By Amy Held Tattooing goes...
It has meant different things to different people at different times, which is part of its genius....
French artisans and craftsmen began constructing the Statue in France under Auguste Bartholdi’s direction. The Early Stages...
The Renaissance period (c. 1300-1600 CE) in European countries is renowned for path-breaking and rapid developments and...
Versailles was the location of two seismic shifts in political culture. Ten million tourists flock to Versailles...
The Ottonian dynasty (German: Ottonen) was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy...
West Francia prospered under succeeding kings up through the rise of the Capetian Dynasty. Introduction The Kingdom...
Imagining what might have happened is natural. In reflecting on the legacy of the American Civil War,...
Adams had become widely revered in his last years. The morning of February 21, 1848, was bright...
A combined force of Germans annihilated a Roman army consisting of three legions. Introduction At the Battle of Teutoburg...
Stories passed down from the ancient world tell of self-powered machines able to move on their own....
Over the course of several centuries, the inhabitants gradually settled down and took up agriculture. Introduction The...
Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations, making its first inhabitants more genetically diverse and adapted to...