Although given basic defensive features, forts were never designed to withstand a sustained enemy attack. By Mark...
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Examining the branch of Santmat, prevalent in the rural areas of Bihar, India. Abstract This paper focuses...
The origin of Buddhism points to one man, Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, who was born in...
They saw the mind as an inherently jumpy thing. Medieval monks had a terrible time concentrating. And...
The mantle of patriarchal Englishness would have seemed distinctly odd to Chaucer himself. By Dr. Marion TurnerAssociate...
Art historian Renée Ater reflects on how pain and reconciliation coexist at the Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery...
The shifting status of cultural symbols reveals a lot about who we are and what we value....
A folklorist is working to preserve the history of a unique, urban community of the Lumbee. A...
A local legend in Yemen states that Aden may be as old as human history itself. Introduction...
His first visit to Rome was around 163 CE during the reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius...
The area of North Africa which has been known as Libya since 1911 was under Roman domination...
Both time and writing, and many other aspects of our daily lives, were invented by the Sumerians...
The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. Introduction...
The Canaanites were the people who inhabited the land of what is now Israel and Palestine before...
At first, the Cuban revolution seemed doomed to fail. Sixty years ago, Fidel Castro launched an audacious bid to...
Thomas Jefferson crafted a letter to John Adams in a delayed reply to several other letters on...
The “Roma” and Travelers are not a single, homogeneous group of people. The terms Gypsies, Roma, and...
The codex didn’t catch on until surprisingly late in the ancient world. By Benjamin HarnettClassics Scholar A...
This witch-hunt harmed even more people than did the Red Scare, often trying to throw people under...
The Etruscan armies of part-time soldiers proved to be no match for the more professional and tactically...
Moral and political philosophy become sterile when they do not engage creatively with art, especially with literature....
With advancements in technology, libraries are offering much more than something to read. A library researcher offers...
After the building that symbolized ‘all that is Russian’ went up in flames, the czar scrambled to...
Archaeologists have found tiny pieces of ancient bread from hunter-gatherers that predate agriculture by about 4,000 years....
According to historical sources and archaeological facts, Magdala was an important town with social and economic development....
Charles V blamed the revolt on their radical ideology rather than the harsh realities of living a...
Ellora (also known as Elura and, in ancient times, as Elapura) is a sacred site in Maharastra,...
Reconstruction’s influence of and effects upon religion, education, industry, and taxation. Organized Religion Freedmen were very active...
The of the aftermath of the Civil War and the brief attempt to “reconstruct” the U.S. South...
The nature of the krypteia very much reflects the roots of its name. By Brandon D. Ross...