Why did the ancient Maya drink toxic liquid tobacco? How did ancient Egyptian obelisks end up all over the world? How did ancient Egyptian obelisks end up all over the world? This wonder of the ...

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 ...

The logo-syllabic writing style is one of the earliest in civilized history, and translations of the ancient Babylonian tablets are essentially windows into the civilization’s commerce ...

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History ... sixth centuries B.C., when it was believed to be the largest city in the ...

Drawing on cutting-edge research and methodologies, these books present new histories of the major civilizations, cultures, peoples, and periods across the ancient world. The Fate of Rome: Climate, ...

Were new disease vectors too much for these ancient ... civilization. Arguably, their form and function were shaped by millennia of diseases and human responses to them, all the way back to the ...

This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.

Leadership lessons need not come from the modern day; they can also be found in ancient history. Emily Poncia looks at some of ... the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. Given the size ...

Some of these customs have remained the same, while others have faded into history. Yet ... as what they can tell scientists ...

Historical leaders and civilizations ... History Untold, allowing players to roleplay as their own culture and change the ...

Their findings paint a more comprehensive picture of ancient Egyptian life Julia Binswanger ... of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...