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Assyrian Soldiers with Iron Crowbars
Alabaster bas-relief depicting Assyrian soldiers using iron crowbars. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 4 (bottom), Room B, the North-Palace Palace, Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)
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Japanese Inlaid Iron Sword (Detail)
A detail of an inlaid iron sword. From Eta Funayama Tumulus, Nagomi-machi, Tamana-gun, Kumamoto, Japan. Kofun Period, 5th-6th century CE. National Treasure.
Tokyo National Museum.
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Iron Corslet from Borno
An iron corslet from Borno in what is now Fika, Nigeria. The corslet was acquired by the British Museum in 1911, and is currently a part of the museum's collection.
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Villanovan Culture
The Villanovan culture flourished during the Iron Age in central Italy from c. 1000 to c. 750 BCE. It was a precursor of the Etruscan civilization, although the two populations are actually the same and the term Villanovan should not imply...
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Rock Drawings of Valcamonica
The rock drawings of Valcamonica are prehistoric petroglyphs carved in the glacier-polished, grey-purple Permian sandstone of the Camonica valley that extends for 90 km in the Italian provinces of Brescia and Bergamo in Lombardy. The name...
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Growing Old in Ancient Greece & Rome
Although life expectancy was lower in ancient Greece and Rome, many people survived into old age. Those who reached old age tended to accumulate wealth and political power. However, the societies of the ancient Mediterranean were also often...
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Viking Iron Fishing Hooks
The Vikings did not use fishing reels or poles. Instead, they tied hooks to a fishing line made from sheep, cow, or walrus intestines, then pulled the fish up by hand. On a small rowing boat out on the open ocean, this was a very dangerous...
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Map of India in the Vedic Age, 1500 BCE-500 BCE - Indo-Aryan Cultures in Northern India
The Vedic Age (c. 1500-500 BCE) marks a formative period in the history of the northern Indian subcontinent, bridging the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization (c. 1300 BCE) and the emergence of early states in the Gangetic plain. During...
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The Minoans & Mycenaeans: Comparison of Two Bronze Age Civilisations
The Bronze Age Aegean in the eastern Mediterranean encompassed several powerful entities: the Minoans on Crete; the Mycenaeans on mainland Greece, and the Cypriots on Cyprus. These cultures are often examined separately, and thus the ample...
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The people of Iron Age Britain
The people of Iron Age Britain were physically very similar to many modern Europeans and there is no reason to suppose that all Iron Age Britons had the same hair colour, eye colour or skin complexion. Iron Age Britons spoke one or more Celtic...
