History

Ancient Egyptian Vizier

The vizier in ancient Egypt was the most powerful position after that of king. Known as the djat, tjat, or tjati in ancient ...

Alcestis

Alcestis, in Greek legend, the beautiful daughter of Pelias, king of Iolcos. She is the heroine of the eponymous play by the ...

William Cecil, Lord Burghley

Overcoming attempts by Dudley (now Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester) and others to sideline him from the centre of court ...

Tiberius

Tiberius (Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, 16 November 42 BC 16 March 37 AD) was the second Roman Emperor. He ruled from 14 ...

Antioch

Antioch is intimately connected with the early history of the gospel. It was the great central point from where missionaries ...

Lagertha

According to legend, Lagertha was a Viking shield-maiden and ruler from what is now Norway, and the onetime wife of the famous ...

Karakorum

Despite its relatively small size, Karakorum was one of the most important cities in the history of the Silk Road. Although ...

Temple of Garni

The Ottoman Turks raided the environs of Garni in 1638 CE during the OttomanSafavid War of 162339 CE, causing much ...

Moche Civilization

Moche, also called Mochica, Andean civilizationthat flourished from the 1st to the 8th century ce on the northern coast of ...

Hypatia of Alexandria

(1) She was the daughter of Theon of Alexandria. (2) She was trained as a mathematician by her father and eventually replaced ...

Deianira

The best known Deianira was the second wife of Heracles. She was the daughter of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and Althaea, and she ...

Ra (Egyptian God)

Ra (Re) was the primary name of the sun god of Ancient Egypt. He was often considered to be the King of the Gods and thus the ...

Spanish Main

The term ‘Spanish Main’ was applied to Spanish colonial possessions in the Americas from around 1520 to 1730 and ...

Theophilos

Theophilus, (died January 20, 842, Constantinople), Eastern Romanemperor (829842), principal promoter of the 9th-century ...

Punt

To the ancients, Punt was a place of legend and fable, illustrated by Herodotus’ account (in Book II of his History, 5th ...

David IV the Builder

David IV, byname David the Builder, (born 1073died 1125), king of Georgia (10891125). Sometimes known as David II, he became ...

Richard III of England

Richard III (2 October 1452 22 August 1485) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 26 June 1483 until his death in ...

Fenrir

Fenrir is the great wolf in Norse Mythology who breaks free from his chains at Ragnark, the twilight of the gods, kills Odin, ...

Eros

700 bce), Eros was a primeval god, son of Chaos, the original primeval emptiness of the universe, but later tradition made him ...

Ark of the Covenant

Whether it was destroyed, captured, or hiddennobody knows. One of the most famous claims about the Ark’s whereabouts is ...

Chanakya

Chanakya was a teacher of war strategies. He wrote down everything he had studied about war and war techniques in the ...

Second Dynasty of Egypt

The Second Dynasty of ancient Egypt (or Dynasty II, c. 2890 c. 2686 BC) is the latter of the two dynasties of the Egyptian ...

Scythians

The Scythians (pronounced ‘SIH-thee-uns’) were a group of ancient tribes of nomadic warriors who originally lived ...

Golden Age of Piracy

The Golden Age of Piracy spanned the period from approximately 1650 to 1726. During this period, bands of pirates menaced ...

Jeremiah

Jeremiah was active as a prophet from the thirteenth year of Josiah, king of Judah (626 BC), until after the fall of Jerusalem ...

Vagharshapat

Vagharshapat (Valarsapat), located some 20 km west of modern Yerevan, was an ancient city in Armenia founded in the 2nd ...

Medieval Castle

Medieval castles were built from the 11th century CE for rulers to demonstrate their wealth and power to the local populace, ...

Aristides

Aristides (/?r??sta?di?z/ ARR-ih-STY-deez; Greek: ??????????, translit. Aristed?s, Attic Greek: [arist??d??s]; 530468 BC) was ...

Parthian Religion

Parthia, ancient land corresponding roughly to the modern region of Khor?s?n in Iran. The term is also used in reference to ...

Ibadat Khana

The Ib?dat Kh?na was a meeting house built in 1575 CE by the Mughal Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri to gather spiritual ...