In the final decades of the 17th century BCE a new kingdom was born in Anatolia.

Sep 10, 2011 – Robert McRoberts

A summary of the Battle of Thermopylae

Sep 7, 2011 – Faith McFadden

This article describes processes and shows photo- images that demonstrate alchemical mysteries still serving our humanity to usher in Earth Peace. Part 2

Sep 6, 2011 – Johanna Parry Cougar

This is an original historical teaching story that guided the behaviors and rules of the earliest human cultures. This is part one in a two-part series.

Sep 6, 2011 – Johanna Parry Cougar

In 2007 Rihanna topped the charts with the R&B hit Umbrella. It is easy to take the lowly umbrella for granted but how did it become part of our culture?

Sep 1, 2011 – Brenda Gargus

According to Herodotus, Homer added a touch of creative licence to his epic The Iliad, a technique regularly employed by the filmmakers of Hollywood today.

Aug 31, 2011 – Sandra Bancroft

Traditionally based in the Central Anatolian city of Hattusha the Hittite Royal Family served as the core of the kingdom's government.

Aug 28, 2011 – Robert McRoberts

A cruel and fanatical patriarch, a founder of a great religious sect, the plotting of cunning bishops - in the fifth century, religion was power.

Aug 22, 2011 – Janet Cameron

A historian that lived during and observed the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that would devastate yet preserve Pompeii and Herculaneum for nearly 1600 years.

Aug 10, 2011 – Kim Childers

Pompeii, a merchant city of 20,000, had many social classes living in the city most above their shops that lined the multilateral stoned streets.

Aug 10, 2011 – Kim Childers

Identifying the European Iron Age people known as Celts is one of the most difficult task historians and anthropologists have undertaken.

Aug 5, 2011 – Ivan Castro

The Politics, Aristotle's seminal work analyzing political society, lays the foundational elements of Western political philosophy.

Aug 5, 2011 – Tim Milosch

"As the first wave of ash fell on Pompeii, a doomed Roman wrote on his bedroom wall, 'Nothing in the world can endure forever.'"

Aug 3, 2011 – Kim Childers

For thousands of years Bronze Age merchants traversed the Mediterranean Sea.

Jul 31, 2011 – Robert McRoberts

The Greek goddess Artemis has long been associated with hunting, wild animals and childbirth.

Jul 31, 2011 – Emily Wallace

What were their lives really like and who were they? Normal people just like you. Here's an inside look at the Gladiators life in Rome and the Colosseum.

Jul 27, 2011 – Kim Childers

The Spartans were widely recognized for their prowess in battle, but their way of life, government, and societal rules separated them from all other Greeks.

Jul 19, 2011 – August Kleinschmidt

There is lots of evidence that magic was practised in antiquity, but is there any indication that people ever doubted the powers of sorcery?

Jul 17, 2011 – Kevin Stoba

One of the most mysterious spiritual movements in the ancient world, what can be said about the initiator-priests of Orphism?

Jul 17, 2011 – Kevin Stoba

After eight years of campaigning, Alexander had conceived a plan to conquer the rest of the world, which in his time, was thought to end in eastern India.

Jul 14, 2011 – Brenda Ralph Lewis