Discovered in 1925, the skull was the first fossilized archaic human found in Western Asia. Introduction Mugharet...
History
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...
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...
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?...
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...
Just what was it that the crew of the HMS Daedalus saw? By Matthew Willis On 6...
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...
With its novel vignettes and its use of a camera obscura in the production of the plates,...
A charming watercolor provides insight into the French artist’s private world. A tiny treasure by Édouard Manet...
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...