The earliest cave paintings here are about 30,000 years old. Introduction The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site...
Ancient
Examining the associations known as ‘collegia’ mentioned in the letters (10.33-34) from the Roman pro-consul Pliny to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
The name Byzantine Empire is a modern term and would have been alien to its contemporaries, who...
The Roman Empire splintered into three separate political entities: the Gallic Empire, the Roman Empire, and the...
In the shadow of the pyramids of Giza lie the tombs of the courtiers and officials who...
Recycling on a large scale is a Bronze Age invention. The circular economy is typically seen as the progressive...
This followed a long period of tension and violence, marked by the first Jewish uprising which ended...
The outcome was the formation of the Hasmonean Dynasty, an autonomous Jewish rule over Palestine that would...
The Romans knew that a powerful naval fleet could supply troops and equipment where they were most...
A combined force of Germans annihilated a Roman army consisting of three legions. Introduction At the Battle of Teutoburg...
Stories passed down from the ancient world tell of self-powered machines able to move on their own....
Over the course of several centuries, the inhabitants gradually settled down and took up agriculture. Introduction The...
The Wielbark culture was named after a village where a burial place with over 3,000 tombs. Introduction...
Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations, making its first inhabitants more genetically diverse and adapted to...
The story of King Solomon begins with his father, King David, and his mother, Bathsheba. Introduction According...