History

Hadrian’s Wall

Hadrian’s Wall was the north-west frontier of the Roman empire for nearly 300 years. It was built by the Roman army on ...

Baal

The worship of Baal was popular in Egypt from the later New Kingdom in about 1400 bce to its end (1075 bce). Through the ...

Ancient Indian Warfare

Thus we came across the term called ‘standing army‘. This standing army consisted of the ‘Kshatriya’ ...

Byzantine Emperor

Contents. The Byzantine Empire was a vast and powerful civilization with origins that can be traced to 330 A.D., when the ...

Philip the Arab

Philip the Arab (Latin: Marcus Julius Philippus Arabs; c. 204 September 249) was Roman emperor from 244 to 249. He was born ...

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a large and ornate mausoleum built both to honor and hold the remains of Mausolus of Caria. ...

Pythia

The Pythia (or Oracle of Delphi) was the priestess who held court at Pytho, the sanctuary of the Delphinians, a sanctuary ...

Roman Legionary

The Roman legionary (in Latin legionarius, plural legionarii) was a professional heavy infantryman of the Roman army after the ...

Tezcatlipoca

A creator god, Tezcatlipoca ruled over Ocelotonatiuh (Jaguar-Sun), the first of the four worlds that were created and ...

Joseph of Arimathea

The story of Joseph of Arimathea is told in all four gospels. Joseph was a wealthy man who came from Arimathea in Judea. He ...

Portuguese Cochin

The momentous interaction between Portugal and Kerala commenced with the historic voyage of Vasco da Gama in 1498. It had ...

Peloponnesian War

The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431404 BC), which was fought between ...

Chandragupta Maurya

Chandragupta was the founder of the Mauryan dynasty (reigned c. 321c. 297 BCE) and the first emperor to unify most of India ...

Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator

Upon the arrival of Roman reinforcements, the Battle of the Nile (47 BC) ensued and resulted in a victory for Caesar and ...

Orontid Dynasty

From 553 BC to 521 BC, Armenia was a subject kingdom of the Achaemenid Empire, but when Darius I was king, he decided to ...

Mount Athos

In Greek mythology, Athos is the name of one of the Gigantes that challenged the Greek gods during the Gigantomachia. Athos ...

Orosius

Orosius was a highly influential figure both for the dissemination of information (History Against the Pagans was one of the ...

Trephination

Trepanning is a process whereby a hole is drilled in the skull, and, with evidence going back to prehistoric times, it is one ...

Medieval Japan

Japan’s Tokugawa (or Edo) period, which lasted from 1603 to 1867, would be the final era of traditional Japanese ...

Marsyas

Marsyas, legendary Greek figure of Anatolian origin. According to the usual Greek version, Marsyas found the aulos (double ...