During the years 550 to 330 B.C.E., the name “Pars Sea” was widely written in the compiled...
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The mostly Eastern European victims were forgotten because of an ensuing backlash against immigrant workers. At the...
While the Marquis de Lafayette gets a share of the glory, names like Gardoqui and Gálvez are...
The blood-sucking insect has played a leading role in the rise and fall of empires throughout history....
Massive rallies, an emulated style, and voted from both Democrats and Republicans couldn’t save this quixotic candidate’s...
The battle was won through a very unusual strategy on Cambyses II’s part: the use of animals...
George III never visited Italy. Instead he collected prints, drawings, and guidebooks enabling him to travel virtually...
Founded by Henry I, there was a close connections between the abbey and the English kings. It...
A masterful militarily astute and diplomatically strategic queen. Halicarnassus was a Graeco-Carian city that belonged to the empire of...
Examining the formal and contextual heterogeneity, as well as the interpretive instability, of objects representing the 1686...
You might say the Roman emperor Septimius Severus was a dreamer, but he wasn’t the only one....
Our knowledge of the ancient world owes a lot to chance discoveries. Here, we share the stories...
The Comstock Law brought reproductive issues to the forefront of American society and paved the way for...
What bones tell us about the lives and deaths of the dead. In 2011, AOC Archaeology completed...
Many people think climate change caused Classic Maya civilization to collapse abruptly around 900 A.D. An archaeologist...
Modern civilizations might also be less capable of recovering from deep collapse than their predecessors. Is the...
New England statesman Daniel Webster believed in strong, centralized power when it served his region’s interests. For...
The committee delegated Thomas Jefferson to undertake the task, and he worked diligently in private for days...
This tetrapolis (“land of four cities”) was to remain the core of the Seleucid Empire. Antioch was...
An ancient Arctic site suggests a complex relationship between humans and dogs. By Lea Surugue In the...
A new study suggests young dogs were frequently buried with humans in China some 3,000 years ago,...
Part essay collection, part shadow-play, part macabre ballet, Satan the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy (1920) is...
Things were far “nastier” in the 19th century, when voters often identified with a specific political party...
Since the earliest years of the republic, candidates have used deceptive, underhanded and dubiously legal tactics to...
Women immigrants have played a dynamic role in transforming America socially, politically, and economically. A Woman’s Story...
Leonardo da Vinci emphasized the naturalness of the relationship of Jesus and Mary in his art, while...
Sri Lankan art is not nearly as well known in the West as the arts of neighboring...
The architecture of ancient Sri Lanka displays a rich diversity. Introduction The architecture of ancient Sri Lanka displays a rich diversity,...
In a discussion with Reinhard Bernbeck, he delves into the origins and ethics of conducting archaeological investigations...
The charge of the Light Brigade always elicited ambivalent responses from eyewitnesses. The charge of the Light...