The punishment for tomb robbing in ancient Egypt was death by impalement. Nevertheless, robbing ancient Egyptian tombs was a popular and prosperous part of history. Egyptian grave robbing is a 7,000-year-old practice. […]
When and where were the first dinosaur bones discovered? The story of dinosaurology and its evolution takes over a century to unfold. […]
Linguistic investigations about the Indo-European languages have had many appealing stories that led to other discoveries. One of these discoveries took place in China in the late 1800s. It shed more light on the historical and anthropological aspects of this region, which wasn’t known before. […]
The marriage in ancient Egypt looked very modern, with divorce being common and a contract for the transfer of property. Surprisingly, it was not arranged by families. So who decided? […]
By Bob Brier, PhD, Long Island University Khufu—also known by the Greek name of Cheops—built the Great Pyramid at Giza. Until the Eiffel Tower was […]
For half a millennium, from their homeland in central Anatolia, the Hittites played a role in Near Eastern politics equal to the traditional great powers of Mesopotamia and Egypt. […]
David Christian structures his groundbreaking Big History course around eight fundamental thresholds. Each of them is associated with new forms of complexity, and each of which has new emergent properties. Here we will take a high-level look at the eight fundamental thresholds of Big History and the material covered within each. […]
By David Christian, D. Phil.,Macquarie University Big History: Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to understand the whole of the past—from the beginning of […]
Whereas the Greeks had largely focused on simple temple architecture, ancient Roman architecture took the concept of public buildings, and created structures unlike the world had ever seen. […]
By Kenneth W. Harl, Ph.D., Tulane University There’s a great deal of debate over the origins of writing but, with Cuneiform in Sumer, we have […]
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