The Antikythera Mechanism: The History and Mystery of the Ancient World's Most Famous Astronomical Device
Discovering ancient shipwrecks hasn’t been a novelty for thousands of years, but when artifacts were salvaged from a Roman shipwreck off t
Discovering ancient shipwrecks hasn’t been a novelty for thousands of years, but when artifacts were salvaged from a Roman shipwreck off t
In 1911, American historian Hiram Bingham publicized the finding of what at the time was considered a “lost city” of the Inca.
When scholars study the history of the ancient Near East, several wars that had extremely brutal consequences (at least by modern standard
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Africa may have given rise to the first human beings, and Egypt probably gave rise to the first great civilizations, which continue to fas
Today, most people are familiar with the term “vandalism”, but are ignorant as to the word’s etymology.
During the last centuries of the first millennium BCE, most of the Mediterranean basin and the Near East were either directly or indirectl
The pages of world history textbooks contain a litany of “lost” empires and civilizations, but usually, upon further review, it is reveale
“These people, who had formerly dwelt on the shores of the Erythraean Sea, having migrated to the Mediterranean and settled in the parts w