Aristotle studied developing organisms, among other things, in ancient Greece, and his writings shaped Western philosophy and...
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The codex didn’t catch on until surprisingly late in the ancient world. By Benjamin HarnettClassics Scholar A...
Cultural, economic, and knowledge transfer occurred in spite of a seemingly long series of hurdles that had...
The history of Eurasia is the collective history of a continental area with several distinct peripheral coastal...
In spite of the military genius of Hannibal, Carthage was destroyed as the result of three wars...
The Etruscan armies of part-time soldiers proved to be no match for the more professional and tactically...
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....
Painstaking reconstruction of fragments of text has revealed the working draft of an ancient Jewish calendar and...
Five of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of Bible were found to be forged. The...
The alliance’s name derives from the island of Delos, where the League originally housed its treasury. By...
The League gave Sparta protection from uprisings within its own borders and eventually secured its dominance in...
The first Hindu temples were built from rock-cut caves. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Hindu architecture evolved over...
Ellora (also known as Elura and, in ancient times, as Elapura) is a sacred site in Maharastra,...
With the establishment of the medieval towns, Italian city-states and maritime republics, the patriciate was a formally...
According to Livy, the first 100 men appointed as senators by Romulus were referred to as “fathers”...
The nature of the krypteia very much reflects the roots of its name. By Brandon D. Ross...
Thucydides placed Brasidas’s Homeric ending in a singularly admirable light. By Nathan A. JenningsNATO Planner, Afghanistan In...
It was a frequently stated virtue of Roman emperors, and was personified as a deity—Virtus. Virtus was...
In philosophy, the notion of virtue played a central role in ethical theory up until the Enlightenment....
After freeing the Zealots from the Temple, the Edomites and Zealots massacred the common people. Introduction The...
A literary alternative to the murderous, supersessionist versions of the story that animates the site. Given the...
The Migration Period is typically regarded as beginning with the invasion of Europe by the Huns from...
The empire of course had many great strengths, but one of the most important keys to its...
Astonishing new research shows that fossil teeth, like trees, contain detailed records of the environments in which...
Scientific analysis of four rare sculptures of mourning women furthers understanding of South Italian funerary art. Introduction...
Since the early days of monasticism, the presence of nuns led to restrictions that limited contact between...
After looting its treasures, Alexander burned the great palace and surrounding city to the ground, as Xerxes...
The author would have constructed the narrative to place the events in the past in order to...
This period of ancient Indian history is known as the Vedic age, as it was depicted in...