A coin for the crossing: Charon ferried souls into the Greek underworld, linking beliefs about death with...
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Londinium was established as a civilian town by the Romans about four years after the invasion of...
Established by the Romans in the 1st century AD, the edge of the river has always been...
The earliest written evidence for the Britons is from Greco-Roman writers and dates to the Iron Age....
The sculpture of the Celts evolved over time, receiving influences from many other cultures. Introduction The sculpture...
Jewelry for the ancient Celts had practical, decorative, ritual, social rank, and other forms of significance. Introduction...
Feasts were an important part of ancient Celtic culture, and items used in them have been excavated...
While millenarian prophecy dominated in the 1640s and 1650s, apocalyptic prophecy in general dwindled after the 1660s....
Four zones in West Africa are especially important because of their influence on developing civilizations. Introduction For...
Ancient seafarers connected distant shores through trade and migration, while advances in shipbuilding expanded the reach of...
The Puritans had little tolerance for those who didn’t conform to their vision of the world. Introduction...
The use of narcotics gradually emerged as a serious social problem in the 20th century. By Dr....
Coffee provides a lens through which to view many of the most important world-historical processes of the...
For certain people, addictive substances are the pillar of society – not only now, in the modern...
Three stories that show how women have created throughout history. By Lyra Kilston, Judith Barr, Elizabeth Morrison,...
With no surviving imperial census, scholars use fragmentary records and demographic models to reconstruct the population and...
The Celts themselves had no concept that they were part of a wider European Iron Age culture....
Celtic art must be judged largely by examining only the art objects themselves and the contexts in...
Gnostics promoted concepts of radical dualism that govern the universe. Introduction Gnosticism is the belief that human beings...
Why the biblical reference in Revelation should be considered in its first-century context. By Dr. Eric M....
In 1209, scholars taking refuge from hostile townsmen in Oxford migrated to Cambridge and settled there. Early...
The university arose around mutual aid societies (known as universitates scholarium) of foreign students called “nations” (as they were grouped...
Dog collars, which were previously utilitarian devices for controlling the animals, became ornate works of art. Introduction...
The Circus was Rome’s largest venue for ludi, public games connected to Roman religious festivals. Introduction The Circus...
A woman and her husband left their congregation — no longer able to tolerate the contradictions. By...
There has perhaps been no other philosophic writer whose thinking was as closely connected with the patterns...
For contemporaries, the sack was an “unbelievable spectacle and conflagration”. By Dr. John M. HuntAssistant Professor of...
It was the purpose of the duel to determine which of the parties was telling the truth...
The “code of chivalry” is a product of the Late Middle Ages, evolving partly from an idealization...
The manuscript was produced around 512 C.E. for the imperial princess Anicia Juliana in Constantinople. By Dr....