Ancient

Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginnin...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving literary work in the world. The epic poetr...

Saber-toothed tigers were arguably the most fabled of all the Ice Age creatures. The fear...

Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaini...

With the fall of the Assyrian empire in 606 B.C., Mesopotamia once more regained her nati...

Giants have existed on the Earth for most of Earth’s history. We are talking about ...

Dr Irving Finkel, curator at the British Museum, explores why the belief in ghosts is wh...

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring a...

The early history of our planet covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries ...

While the Bronze Age is recognized as one of history’s most important phases, it&r...

I have written six other books on ancient civilizations and Giants. This book ties them a...

The Pleistocene spans a period from around 2.5 mya to just over 12,000 years ago, and it...

It was not until the excavations of the 1930s that many of the relics, reliefs, and clay...

The ancient Edomites were just one of the many cultures inhabiting the Levant during the ...

It is difficult to ignore the effortless cool of a saber-toothed tiger. The fanged feline...

Ancient history is a vast subject and can have you occupied for hours. The sources of anc...

People associate the story of ancient Jericho with walls, and for those who are Biblical...

Along with Egypt, the cultural and geographic region known as Mesopotamia was home to so...

Individuals who decide to take up learning about the Old Testament of the Bible are immed...

While the Bronze Age is recognized as one of history’s most important phases, it&r...

Explore Alexander the Great's life through an hourly history tour. Alexander's name remai...

Malta’s history goes back further than many know, which can be attested to by the n...

Oxford-trained professor Fr. David Meconi transports you to the world of the early Christ...

"The Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, is one of the greatest philosophical works of all t...

In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was on top of the world. Never a man to sit on his hands ...

Gnosticism is one of the great mysteries in the history of Western religion. At its core...

When one thinks of the world’s first cities, Sumer, Memphis, and Babylon are some o...

Discover The Byzantine Empire History From Start To Finish!If you asked someone today whe...

It was a frosty, wintry September morning in 2012 when 11-year-old Yevgeny “Zhenya&...

Scientists have long attempted to understand Earth’s past, and in service to that...

As Earth entered the Cambrian Period, there was a relatively sudden increase in life for...

The ancient Gutians are probably not one of the groups that come to most people’s ...

The creative impetus of organized society in the Fertile Crescent initially came from so...

Dragons are an enduring icon around the world. Many cultures have dragons in them as myst...

There have been many books and movies about whether Atlantis really existed and where it ...

The creative impetus of organized society in the Fertile Crescent initially came from so...

A generally accepted figure for the larger Stone Age featuring the first use of stone to...

Many objects have been found from the deep past which should not exist. We are talking ab...

The study of paleoanthropology is the branch of anthropology that examines the developmen...

Not far from the Latakia, Syria, near the Mediterranean Sea coast, is the politically in...

Among the most significant water displacement phenomena in the Western world was Doggerl...

My previous books on ancient civilizations, megaliths, strange objects out of time, Atlan...

Although the school of philosophy started by Socrates and championed by Plato and Aristo...

The more recent finds at Tello by Ryan Moorhen have enabled us to bridge the gap which fo...

Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area in North America. It extends fr...

The influence of the Mayan civilization when at its height (400 to 600 A. D.) may be trac...

Although the Biblical accounts of the Assyrians are among the most interesting and are o...

International trade in the ancient world was a more intricate and far-reaching system th...

The annals of world history are filled with intriguing, although often outlandish storie...

At one point in antiquity, the Achaemenid Persian Empire was the largest empire the world...