Ancient Near East: Did you mean...?

The royal city of Ayutthaya (ah-you-tah-ya) was a small kingdom in Siam (modern Thailand), and it was an unrivalled commercial and maritime power from 1350-1767 CE. Ayutthaya became the second capital of Siam in 1438...

Map showing some of the major regional resouces of the eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, East Africa, and Central and South Asia.

Local trade in ancient Mesopotamia began in the Ubaid period (circa 6500-4000 BCE), had developed into long-distance trade by the Uruk period (circa 4000-3100 BCE), and was flourishing by...

The British East India Company (EIC) was founded as a trading company in 1600. Run by a board of directors in London, the company employed a private army, first to protect the trade it conducted in the Indian...

Overview of Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Egyptian Art for TICE ART 1010.

This painted fragment on stone shows a foreign man from the Near East or Canaan presenting fruit. It was painted in ancient Egypt c. 1340 BCE. (Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels)

An 1873 oil on canvas, Factory near Pontoise, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist, unlike most other impressionists, was very interested in capturing industrial architecture...

Megalithic funerary statues at Mesita B near San Agustín, Huila Department, Colombia. Created c. 1st to 10th century CE. For inclusion with article: https://member.ancient.eu/article/1433/suggested/

Morpheus Awakening as Iris Draws Near, oil on canvas by René-Antoine Houasse, 1690. Palace of Versailles.

The intoxicant known in English as beer takes its name from the Latin bibere (by way of the German bier), meaning "to drink", and the Spanish word for beer, cerveza, comes from the Latin word...