History

Sun Stone

Sunstone began as a costly and little-known gemstone until deposits were found in Norway and Siberia. This gemstone has a ...

Lighthouse of Alexandria

The lighthouse was intended to guide & protect sailors, & to that end was dedicated to Zeus Soter (Deliverer). ...

Medieval Heraldry

Heraldry, that is the use of inherited coats of arms and other symbols to show personal identity and family lineage, began on ...

Tarsus

The first historical record of Tarsus is its rebuilding by the Assyrian king Sennacherib (705/704681 bce). Thereafter, ...

Third Intermediate Period of Egypt

The First Intermediate Period, described as a ‘dark period‘ in ancient Egyptian history, spanned approximately 125 ...

Ur-Nammu

Ur-Nammu (r. 2047-2030 BCE) was the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur in Sumer who initiated the so-called Ur III Period ...

The Seven Wonders

The original list comes from a work by Philo of Byzantium written in 225 B.C. called On The Seven Wonders. Ultimately, human ...

Edward England

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus ...

The Clouds

The origin of the term “cloud” can be found in the Old English words clud or clod, meaning a hill or a mass of ...

Cuicuilco

Prominent in the late pre-Classic period, around 500 BCE, it is noted for its large circular temple mound, one of the earliest ...

Aristophanes

Aristophanes, often referred to as the Father of Comedy, wrote the world’s earliest surviving comic dramas. ...

Cleisthenes

Cleisthenes of Athens, Cleisthenes also spelled Clisthenes, (born c. 570 bcedied c. 508), statesman regarded as the founder of ...

Sir William Johnson

Johnson’s most important legacy is the comparatively peaceful co-existence of Anglo-Americans and Indians during his ...

Nebuchadnezzar II

Nebuchadnezzar II is known as the greatest king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia. He conquered Syria and Palestine and ...

The Pentecontaetia

Pentecontaetia (Greek: ??????????????, “the period of fifty years”) is the term used to refer to the period in ...

Muhammad Ghori

Definition. Shihab al-Din (also Mu?izz al-Din Muhammad ibn Sam), popularly known as Muhammad Ghori (r. 1173-1206 CE), was the ...

Song Dynasty

The Song dynasty was the first in world history to issue banknotes or true paper money and the first Chinese government to ...

Giotto

For almost seven centuries Giotto has been revered as the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian ...

Orleans Cathedral

It was originally built from 1278 to 1329. It was partially destroyed in 1568 by the Huguenots during the French Wars of ...

Xochicalco

Xochicalco in central Mexico was an important hilltop centre from the 8th century CE and was a rival and successor of ...

Artaxerxes I

Artaxerxes I, (died 425 bc, Susa, Elam [now in Iran]), Achaemenid king of Persia (reigned 465425 bc). He was surnamed in Greek ...

Minoan Architecture

The Minoans began building palaces around 1900 BC to act as cultural, religious, administrative, and commercial centers for ...

Melqart

Archaeological evidenceThe first occurrence of the name is in the 9th-century BCE the “Ben-Hadad” inscription ...

Lambayeque Civilization

The Lambayeque civilization (aka Sicn) flourished between c. 750 and c. 1375 CE on the northern coast of Peru, straddling the ...

Greek Astronomy

In classical Greece, astronomy was a branch of mathematics; astronomers sought to create geometrical models that could imitate ...

Serapis

Simply put, Serapis (Sarapis, Zaparrus) was an invented god. He was a composite of several Egyptian and Hellenistic deities ...

Sogdiana

The Sogdians were an Iranian people whose homeland, Sogdiana, was located at the center of several of those routes, in ...

Telesilla of Argos

Telesilla & the Salvation of ArgosWhile she was famous during her life for her poetry, she was equally respected by later ...

Marcus Agrippa

Agrippa was born in 63 BC, in an uncertain location. His father was called Lucius Vipsanius. He had an elder brother whose ...

Anne Hutchinson

Considered one of the earliest American feminists, Anne Hutchinson was a spiritual leader in colonial Massachusetts who ...