What was so special about Belisarius was that he accepted the bargain. Doing the right thing was enough. Serving his country, his God, and doing his duty faithfully was all that mattered. Any ...

Let’s pull back the curtain on the true lives of ancient Sparta’s most feared fighters.1. They Chose Their HeritageThe ...

It’s one of only four known Roman camps in the Netherlands and was really just a rest stop between larger fortifications.

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In 1901 the Jewish National Fund was established with the purpose of reclaiming the ancestral homeland of the Jews (Israel/Palestine). This was done by PURCHASING LAND from the Turkish rulers ...

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Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

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Belisarius was a renowned military commander with impressive battlefield achievements. Hampered by limited resources in both ...

The only woman ever to have ruled the mighty Assyrian Empire, Semiramis titillated writers and painters from the Roman period to the 19th century. Queen Semiramis surveys the building of Babylon ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...