The study of ancient history uncovered civilizations, innovations, achievements, and legacies that laid the foundation for the modern world.
Wrestling in Mesopotamia blended sport, military training, divine symbolism, and social prestige. The world’s oldest sport reflected cultural identity.
Warrior, queen, myth, or memory? Penthesilea’s story blurs the line between legend and reality, revealing a woman who fought men as an equal.
In democratic Athens, popularity could get you elected to high office, but it could also get you exiled from the city through the practice of ostracism.
The Odyssey is one of Greek myth’s most enticing stories. What does archaeology tell us about Ithaca, specifically the Cave of the Nymphs visited by Odysseus?
Most Christians know Ahab as one of the most evil kings of Israel who, along with his wife Jezebel, led the Israelites to worship Baal.
How do the Parthenon Marbles continue to fuel the repatriation debate and highlight its complexity?
It was in 42 CE, under Emperor Claudius, a century after Julius Caesar’s initial incursions, that Britannia would become a province of the Roman Empire.
Homer’s poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are some of our most important sources for the Bronze Age. But does he really describe the Bronze Age?