An intellectual of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mehmet Ziya Bey's great handwritten manuscript 'Istanbul and the Bosporus: Traces of the Byzantium and Ottoman Empires in Istanbul' has been transcribed in the Latin alphabet for the service of th
Festivals in ancient Greece and Rome were important periods of time during which people performed “activities that are most often thought of as communications with the superhuman world.”
SOMETIMES YOU RUN ACROSS A GRIMY, TATTERED DOLLAR BILL THAT SEEMS LIKE IT’S BEEN AROUND SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME. ASSUREDLY IT HASN’T, BUT THE HISTORY OF HUMAN BEINGS USING CASH CURRENCY DOES GO BACK A LONG TIME – 40,000 YEARS.
From prehistory to the 21st century, human sacrifice has been practiced around the world by numerous cultures. Live Science takes a look at 25 cultures that practiced, or still practice, human sacrifice.
Æthelred II, also dubbed the Unready was King of Saxon England during 978–1013 and 1014–1016. Under his father Kind Edgar, England had experienced a period of peace after the reconquest of the Danelaw in the mid-10th century.
A tomb dating back around 3,400 years has been discovered on Sai Island, on the Nile River in Sudan.
An international team of researchers has reconstructed the face and brain of a 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummy, revealing a unique "packing" embalming treatment.
The National Museum of China in Beijing was the world's most-visited museum in 2016, says an annual report on global attractions.
Objects inside the tomb appear to show the cultural interactions between different worlds in the 5th century BCE.
This marvelous piece from Hadrian’s Villa is a headless statue of Athena of the Vescovali-Arezzo Type and made of Luna marble.
How Genghis Khan's heirs used the principles of tolerance to build the first wave of globalisation
The Egyptians used to believe that literacy was divine, a gift from baboon-faced Thoth, the god of knowledge.
A vivid, turquoise-colored carving from ancient Egypt has been returned to a Berlin museum more than 70 years after it was thought to have been lost during World War II.
A comparison of mummy genomes with those of modern Egyptians shows conquerors left little mark, writes Andrew Masterson.
In an effort to share more of our favourite ancient objects from around the world, each month Ancient History Encyclopedia staff are going to take a closer look at some really amazing objects or buildings. Today’s Object in Focus is the Antonine Wall.
