Ancient Athenians and Romans also let shared mass tragedies propel justifications for going to war. Introduction On...
History
The Barbary regencies had preyed upon European commerce – and were generously rewarded for having done so....
In the 5th century B.C., Empedocles and Anaxagoras offered arguments for the spherical nature of the Earth....
The Roman Empire began as a single city-state, and it ended the same way. Constantinople at first had...
Each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the invention of the punched...
In 1943, farmers from the village of La Victoria discovered a cache of buried items, including the...
The contrast of tall modern buildings and older ones conveys the modern turn and the economic affluence...
Issues of fertility in the Roman world are well documented. By Jordan Reece Tayeh Introduction Divinity has...
The Black Death served to promote medical innovations that laid the foundations of modern medicine. By Joseph...
Forman’s casebooks reveal details of his thousands of clients, and his diary provides an invaluable insight into...
Tales concerning Baal date back to the mid-14th and late 13th centuries BCE in written form. Introduction...
NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist studies the people who invent new tongues. Most languages develop through centuries...
Though the Scythians had no temples, there is ample evidence of priestly function of their kurgans and...
Seeing the feathered members of a Getty art collection through an expert’s eyes. Introduction As artistic styles...
Multiple back-and-forth movements are not surprising, and multidirectional migrations make pinpointing origins difficult. Introduction With 7600 perimeter...
The Roman-Byzantine Empire participated in extensive trade and diplomatic contacts with a wide range of societies. The...
The Byzantines found themselves in contact with an ever-expanding range of cultural groups. The treasury of the...
One viable solution to increase one’s wealth was to simply steal someone else’s property. Introduction Early medieval...
Confederate paper money was a promise to exchange the bill for gold or silver, but only after...
The myth of Laocoön dates back to the seventh century BCE as part of a series of...
Saint Valentine is commemorated in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Churches on February 14. Introduction Saint...
At least three individuals by the name of Valentinus are associated with the holiday, and all of...
Medieval images of Christian devotion could be found alongside images of mortal life, such as romantic love....
The Ponte Vecchio is historically significant as the city’s only remaining premodern bridge. Introduction On the night...
In pursuit of balance, we may try everything but get to the bottom of nothing. Introduction One...
This transfer of power is a fine-tuned machine that ensures that there is always someone to lead...
The inhabitants of Çatalhöyük formed an egalitarian society. Introduction Ҫatalhöyük is one of the largest Neolithic settlements ever discovered. Built...
The biblical story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt is also a historical tale of reparations after...
By the time slavery ended, over 1 million enslaved people had been forcibly moved in the domestic...
The story of the son of a mother of mixed Choctaw and Black ancestry whose freedom had...