Darius thoroughly revised the Persian system of administration and also the legal code. Introduction Darius the Great...
History
While Cyrus seems to have accepted the crown of Media, by 546 BCE, he had officially assumed...
A linguist considers whether saving languages is sentimental or critical. I met the last speaker of Naati...
An anthropologist works in American Samoa, taking advantage of the island’s longstanding tattoo culture to tease out...
Tattoo patterns and art on the face and body differed from one Polynesian island group to the...
The history of slave rebels and resistance in the Caribbean is a rich and complicated story. Marissa:...
It was justified by reference to historical myths that nobles and servile peasants were separated by courage...
A few people have had the luxury of enjoying representative governments in human history. Most of the...
Not so long ago, people had no idea what would happen to them – and what they...
Submarines played a major role in Word War I. But the first submersible was actually used, though...
A medieval world where caves and underground shelters provided refuge from raiders, allowing a threatened civilization to...
Complex societies took the forms of larger agricultural villages, cities, city-states, and states, which shared many features....
Did you know the ancient Greeks measured the circumference of the earth, invented robots and the first...
Studying animal tooling can provide clues to the mysteries of human evolution. Human beings used to be...
It is often referenced as a Zoroastrian heresy because it departed significantly from central Zoroastrian beliefs. Introduction...
It was developed from an oral tradition founded by the prophet Zoroaster sometime between c. 1500-1000 BCE....
Zoroastrianism was adopted by the Achaemenid Empire, the Parthian Empire, and found its fullest expression under the...
Introduction Zoroaster (also known as Zarathustra) was an important religious figure in ancient Persia (present-day Iran and...
Ancient Persia had the same interest in what happens after death as any culture in the present...
The ancient Persian religious tradition was passed down orally, and the only written texts relating to it...
Exploring the evolution of our rights and freedoms and the relevance of the Great Charter today. Introduction...
Magna Carta’s place in modern legal and popular culture and the importance of its 800-year-old symbolism. Introduction...
Starting in 1297, a small group of particularly wealthy merchants blocked political and economic competition. Abstract International...
A wide-ranging new Getty book examines the role of text and image across cultures over the thousand-year...
Its name is derived from the Persians who settled in the area in the 7th century BCE....
Developments here had a decisive impact on the progress of human history. Introduction Iran, officially the Islamic...
All of the victims whose remains the groups have been searching for are homicide victims of the...
Washington, DC, had never, in its brief and undistinguished history, known a social season like this one....
Jerusalem has been an urban center for approximately 5,000 years. Introduction Jerusalem is the capital of the...
The beginning of Ptolemaic influence in Nubia began when Ptolemy II led a campaign against the kingdom...