If there’s one bit of Ancient Roman history most people know, it’s that the rich and powerful loved watching slaves and ...

Food scraps, weapons and personal items dotted the ancient complex — and revealed its purpose. Archaeologists were excavating part of an archaeological site in Housh Eissa when they unearthed the ...

The explorer Jacques Soustelle called Bonampak "a pictorial encyclopedia of a Mayan city ... beautiful murals depicting the life of the ancient Maya. The three-roomed Templo de las Pinturas ...

Ancient masters of engineering ... This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Water was transported not only for drinking but also for public ...

Professor Gerberding taught Latin and Ancient History courses at Willamette University between ... eds., Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, New York & London: Garland Press, 1995, pp. 801-2. • ...

Before we jump into how wrong many of history's great thinkers were ... In about 500 BC, ancient Greek philosophers like Hippocrates and Pythagoras believed fathers held the answers to heredity.

Romeyka, an endangered dialect of Greek spoken in the region of Trabzon and Pontus in northern Turkey, may get a new lease of ...

according to the World History Encyclopedia. Related: Rare gold coins and cremated infants were possible sacrificial gifts to the ancient gods of Carthage Analysis of the ram, which is now onshore ...

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... of Medicine—a 30-volume encyclopedia that documented ...

Anna Luisa Rodriguez The Washington Post As soon as I booked my flights for a trip to Mexico City last December, I scouted ...

Take a trip on the wild side in Darwin, where you can learn about the original owners of a pristine land, marvel at ancient ...

A bronze sword found at the ancient fort. Photo from Egypt's ... best known pharaohs,” according to an article from World History Encyclopedia. The 3,000-year-old fort found in Housh Eissa.