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The study of ancient history uncovered civilizations, innovations, achievements, and legacies that laid the foundation for the modern world.
Based on the island of Crete, before the ancient Greeks, the Minoans dominated the Aegean world for nearly 2,000 years during the Bronze Age.
The Weighing of the Heart ceremony was an essential step in passing from the world of the living to the realm of the dead in ancient Egypt.
According to Welsh tradition, King Arthur had three wives, not just one. What do we know about them, and in which sources do they appear?
Did the famous city of Sparta already exist during the Bronze Age when the Mycenaeans dominated Greece? Or did the City of Warriors come much later?
If it had not been for Emperor Constantine and his involvement in Christianity in the 4th century CE, Christianity would look much different today.
Sennacherib was an Assyrian king best known in the Bible for his invasion of Judah. But there is much more to him than the Bible reveals.
For centuries, the Messenians were suppressed by the Spartans as a slave underclass until they threw off their shackles and created their own free Greek city-state.
An orator and statesman, Demosthenes dominated Athenian politics in the mid-4th century BCE as it battled the rising power of Macedonia.