who founds the first settlement in Italy after the destruction of Troy by the Greeks in the 12th century BC. It is the story of the earliest days of Rome, a national epic honoring Rome and ...

Pottery has long been used to date archaeological sites but previously held ideas about styles associated with the iron age ...

What Greece was first to Rome, then to the rest of the Mediterranean and European World,” argues Dalrymple, “so at this ...

How Ancient India Transformed the World is, therefore, not just about the wonder that was India but its influence on the rest ...

In Turkey, a team of archaeologists discovered the tomb of a Roman gladiator dating back to the third century B.C., with the remains of 12 individuals inside. The tomb was unearthed during the ...

Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...

Burns Library. “From Rome to the Heights” features Dutch vocal group Cappella Pratensis, whose residency at BC will culminate in a rare opportunity to experience Renaissance polyphonic music, a style ...

Dating back to the 12th century BC, this was the primary burial ground for Athens until the Roman times. The cemetery was divided into two parts: the inner Kerameikos reserved for the elite and ...

BC), and gold vessels from the Panagyurishte Treasure (300 BC.). Other displays included Treasure of Khan Kubrat (635 AD) and ...

Israelis trace the settling of the land to the 13th and 12th centuries ... under Roman, Byzantine, and Arab rule until the European Crusaders arrived in 1099 AD. In the 16th century the Ottoman ...

In Ancient Egypt, around 3100 BC, having an indoor toilet showed a ... Monks living at Hampshire’s Portchester Castle in the 12th century built stone chutes that led down to the sea, leaving ...