July 10, 2024 — A trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya helps explain the history of plant farming in equatorial eastern Africa, a region long thought to be important for early ...

Notes: Since borders frequently shifted, there are some differences between the political geography ... smaller villages important in the four Gospels Caesarea - seat of Roman Government; site ...

A Human History of the Mediterranean; By Davide Abulafia; Oxford University Press; 816 pp., $68.00 If you read the better class of these ocean books, you might soon find yourself convinced of the ...

For this series on ancient ... Scotland’s most important village and here is the proof As I wrote last week, there is no absolute definition of what comprises a village but over the years I have used ...

MAYBE the most famous poem based on a painting is WH Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts from December 1938. Do you remember it?

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

Wonder what people like Shakespeare, Martin Luther, and Sir Isaac Newton really looked like? Well, you can find out...right ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome ... 2,000-year lifespan of the Roman state is so important.

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

Photo from L. Destrade and Inrap Digging into the pale brown dirt of southern France, archaeologists painstakingly revealed more and more of a rare ancient Roman site. One structure in particular ...

The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.