While modern soldiers may not adopt the testudo formation as the legions of old did, many Roman innovations did lead to ...

Have you ever felt thunder shake the windows or watched lightning split the sky and wondered who—or what—might be behind such ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ June 13 The Wall Street Journal says Gabbard, Trump's DNI are encouraging nuclear proliferation In case you didn’t ...

The Oxford history of ancient Egypt. Publication date 2000 Topics Egypt -- History -- To 640 A.D Publisher Oxford ; New York ... Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction : ...

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a Roman-era sarcophagus that depicts Dionysus beating Hercules in a drinking contest.

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A local tourist apparently suffering from a “mental illness” caused chaos and destruction at the Terracotta Army Museum in X’ian, China, damaging several ancient statues of a Chinese ruler, Ancient ...

The first naval engagement between Israel and Egypt ended here today in a victory for the Jews. Involved in the tattle, which lasted three hours, were an Egyptian convoy consisting of a corvette ...

Ancient Egyptian artisans developed precise, repeatable recipes to create four distinct shades of Egyptian blue, the world’s first synthetic pigment, long before the science of chemistry existed. The ...

The pigment “Egyptian Blue” was invented about 5,000 years ago. It’s the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment. But it was lost to time, until recently. Scientists at Washington State ...

Greece and Egypt rejected the Turkish-Libyan agreement as illegal and in response, signed their own MoU on maritime boundaries in 2020. Gerapetritis’ mission in Cairo is diplomatically delicate.

How did this royal tomb become an ancient wonder? Size and style. Built in the 4th century B.C., the lavish—and massive—Mausoleum at Halicarnassus awed onlookers for more than 1,600 years.