Ancient civilizations have always fascinated historians and the public. Because of how different the modern world is, we tend to marvel at how people thrived in the past, yet they had minimal ...

Have you heard of these seven ancient disasters in America that changed history? Prepare to have your mind blown.

The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost composition by Mozart and a medieval chess piece Meilan Solly The monument was ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

Our list takes a broad disciplinary and geographically inclusive approach to understanding humanity’s ancient past, with an emphasis on seeing ancient civilizations as fluid sites of crosscultural ...

After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations Eric H. Cline In this gripping sequel to his bestselling ... Alison Bechdel, New York Times... Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and ...

No one would dispute the desirability of the possibility of an examination of the social thought of the ancient civilizations, especially after reading the very able book of Prof. Hertzler.

A series of short animations that take the viewer back in time to explore seven different ancient civilizations. These clips are from the BBC series Lost Lands. Suitable for: KS2 in Engalnd ...

In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...

British archaeologist Gordon Childe believed that archaeology is the study of researching and comparing an assemblage of ...

The Civilization of Ancient Egypt.” The ten-night series, which ended this fall, was a hit. The museum released 200 bring-a-cat tickets (and 2,000 human tickets) for each event, all of which ...