Traditionally, Roman society was extremely rigid. Introduction The social structure of ancient Rome was based on heredity,...
Completed in 691 CE, the Dome of the Rock is the oldest extant Islamic building in the...
Discovered in 1925, the skull was the first fossilized archaic human found in Western Asia. Introduction Mugharet...
For some Euro-enthusiasts, who have long sought Europe’s “emancipation” from the United States, such a prospect might...
NATO is girding up for what some believe is a new Cold War with Russia, but President...
The League represents the most successful attempt by the Greek city states to develop a collective government...
Athens’s heavy-handed control of the Delian League ultimately prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Introduction The Delian...
Trump has learned very well from prior anti-Communism crusaders, and it requires vigilance and activism to cope...
The Syrian army, honing in on her satellite phone, targeted an artillery strike on the building where...
Each one immediately followed wars – World War I and II. Introduction A “Red Scare” is promotion...
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever book that...
Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process...
Lycians are associated with a group known as the Sea Peoples in Hittite and Egyptian texts. Introduction...
Strabo tells us that the city of Side was founded around the 7th century BCE by Greek...
Legislators in a growing number of democracies are clamping down on civil society. In the United States,...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is the first monument to commemorate the over 4,000 African...
He considered it the most democratic of arts and a crucial aid in the quest to end...
The European explorer Marco Polo (1254-1324 CE) traveled on these routes and described them in depth in...
The reputation of Chinese silk spread so that it became highly desired across the empires of the...
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...
Introduced by Richard I in 1194, the taxable value of an estate was initially assessed from the...
Commodus was the first of what would be a century of inept emperors. Introduction Commodus was Roman...
Did one of Rome’s wisest and most revered emperors benefit from an ancient precursor of cognitive psychotherapy?...
Criminal justice reform advocates are sounding the alarm about the tech’s deception, and ramifications. We’ve all heard...
Historically, the overwhelming majority of reforms are top-down, state-engineering initiatives that are never intended or designed to...
The prison was constructed around 640–616 BCE, by Ancus Marcius. Introduction The Mamertine Prison (Italian: Carcere Mamertino), in antiquity the Tullianum,...
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...