Military might was very important for ancient kingdoms to survive and even more important in building and maintaining ... During the fifth century BC at the height of the Greek-Persian Wars, Greeks ...
In this column, I am starting a series about the ancient lost kingdoms of Scotland – those territories and communities which would ultimately merge to form the country we know today. Over the next few ...
Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...