History

Paestum

Paestum History Builder Colonists from Sybaris and/or Troezen Founded Around 600 BC Periods Archaic Greece to Middle ...

Antiochia ad Cragum

Antiochia ad Cragum was founded around 170 BCE. It is known that at the beginning of the first century BCE the city served as ...

Shang Dynasty

The Shang Dynasty is the earliest ruling dynasty of China to be established in recorded history, though other dynasties ...

Jurchen Jin Dynasty

The Jin dynasty was created in modern Jilin and Heilongjiang by the Jurchen tribal chieftain Aguda in 1115. According to ...

Lebor Gabla Erenn

The Lebor Gabala Erenn, usually called The Book of the Invasions of Ireland, is a a “synthetic history” comprising ...

Publius Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus (46 BC AD 9) was a Roman general and politician under the first Roman emperor Augustus. Varus is ...

John Winthrop

John Winthrop (l. c. 1588-1649 CE) was an English lawyer best known as the Puritan leader of the first large wave of the Great ...

Byzantine Art

Byzantine art originated and evolved from the Christianized Greek culture of the Eastern Roman Empire; content from both ...

Leo V the Armenian

Leo V is the only Byzantine emperor to be nicknamed “Armenian” by Byzantine chroniclers.

Kalash Culture

History and social status. The Kalash are considered to be an indigenous people of Asia, with their ancestors migrating to ...

Baba Yaga

Baba Yaga is a witch from Slavic folklore who lives in a magical hut in the forest and either helps, imprisons, or eats those ...

Sisyphus

Sisyphus (or Sisyphos) is a figure from Greek mythology who, as king of Corinth, became infamous for his general trickery and ...

Corinth

Corinth derives its name from Ancient Corinth, a city-state of antiquity. The site was occupied from before 3000 BC. ...

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia means “between the rivers” in ancient Greek. The oldest known occurrence of the name Mesopotamia dates ...

Kojiki

The Kojiki is an important source book for ceremonies, customs, divination, and magical practices of ancient Japan. It ...

Kukii Heiau

The Kukii Heiau is situated directly on Cape Kumukahi, a word which means ‘beginning’ or ‘origin’. ...

Huns

Other historians believe the Huns originated from Kazakhstan, or elsewhere in Asia. Prior to the 4th century, the Huns ...

Batu Khan

Batu Khan (c. 1205 1255) was a Mongol ruler and the founder of the Blue Horde. Batu was a son of Jochi and grandson of ...

Ajanta

The Ajanta Caves are generally agreed to have been made in two distinct phases, the first during the 2nd century BCE to 1st ...

Foot-Binding

Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape ...

Paul the Apostle

Paul was a Greek-speaking Jew from Asia Minor. His birthplace, Tarsus, was a major city in eastern Cilicia, a region that had ...

Khajuraho

History. The Khajuraho group of monuments was built during the rule of the Chandela dynasty. The building activity started ...

Mosaic

The History of MosaicsThe earliest known mosaics were found in a Mesopotamian temple dating back to the 3rd millennium BC. ...

Etymologiae

The Etymologiae (Etymologies) is a Latin work by Isidore of Seville (l. c. 560 – 636 CE), compiled in the early 7th ...

Merlin

Merlin, also known as Myrddin Wyllt, Merlin Caledonensis, or Merlin Sylvestrus lived from about 540 to August 584. He is a ...

Juba II

Juba II was a Berber prince from Numidia. He was the only child and heir of King Juba I of Numidia; his mother’s ...

Philip Melanchthon

In 1521 Melanchthon published the Loci communes, the first systematic treatment of the new Wittenberg theology developed by ...

Manila Galleon

The so-called Manila Galleon (Nao de China or Nao de Acapulco) brought porcelain, silk, ivory, spices, and myriad other exotic ...

Petrarch

Petrarch is often regarded as the Father of Humanism because he helped popularize the classical world and literature study. He ...

Leptis Magna

Leptis Magna (Lepcis Magna) is an incredibly well preserved archaeological site in Tripoli, Libya. Originally founded by the ...