Selection of scarabs including Scarab with the Name of Hatshepsut, 1473-1458 BC, Heart Scarab of Ruru, 1550-1070 BC, and Naturalistic Scarab, 688-30 BC, via The Met Museum, New York The Egyptian ...
Between 1960 and 1968, the United States steadily increased its involvement in the Vietnam War, peaking at over 500,000 US troops stationed in South Vietnam. Economically, America’s lengthiest war, ...
The Crusades were an attempt by the medieval Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages to use military force to reconquer the Holy Land (Jerusalem and its surrounding areas, where Jesus Christ lived ...
Three decades after Christ’s crucifixion, Emperor Nero began the Roman Empire’s persecution of the early Christians. It all culminated with executions in Nicomedia almost 300 years later. Emperor ...
In the 19th century, Europe’s imperial superpowers were locked in a battle for global supremacy. Their colonial gaze soon fell upon Africa. The continent became a battleground for European competition ...
The Flood Tablet, Tablet 11 of the Gilgamesh epic, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 7th century BC; with The Palette of Narmer, 1st Dynasty; and The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC The alphabet we use to write today in the ...
The Greek gods were divided into two categories: those above the earth and those below. The chthonic gods in Ancient Greece resided in or were associated with the underworld and the dead. The most ...
The marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile is one of the most masterful pieces of political theater in history. It was far from a love-story — while, by all accounts, Ferdinand ...
The Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum, 4th century AD, via Colosseum Rome Tickets (left); with The Temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in the Roman Province of Asia, 1st century BC, via Slow Travel ...
J.S. Bach is the most famous musical director in the history of Leipzig. He held the position for 27 years between 1723 and his death in 1750. Being the musical director, or Thomaskantor, in Leipzig, ...
Ganymede (or Ganymedes) was a young man from Troy. His beauty was unparalleled, and for that reason, Zeus abducted and brought him to Olympus to serve as his cupbearer and lover. Ganymede’s myth is an ...
Aldous Huxley is an English novelist and philosopher best known for his dystopian science-fiction book Brave New World, published in 1932, which is now considered to have been ahead of its time. Brave ...
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