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Simón Bolívar (1793-1830), Venezuelan military officer and statesman, mezzotint portrait by Charles Turner, 1827. Known as "The Liberator", Bolívar led several countries in South America to independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th...

In this interview, Ancient History Encyclopedia is talking to Simon Young, the founder of Lithodomos VR, which is a company based in Melbourne, about their new platform Ancient World! Simon (Lithodomos VR): Hi, Kelly. It is great to be here...

Simon Forman (1552-1611) was an Elizabethan physician, astrologer, magician, and alchemist who lived and worked in both London and Wiltshire, England. He was unusual in that despite receiving no formal training in medicine or astrology, and...

In the 2nd century CE, as Christianity was in the process of becoming an independent religion, a body of literature emerged that scholars classify as apocrypha and pseudepigrapha. Apocrypha (Greek: apokryptein, "to hide away") are those books...

Saint Peter the Apostle was a well-known figure in early Christianity. Although there is no information on the life of Peter outside the Bible, in the Christian tradition, he is often depicted as the first on many occasions: the first to...

A photo showing St. Simon the Zealot's cave in Abkhazia, Georgia.

A painting of Simon the Zealot. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper. Created by James Tissot (1936-1902) between 1886-1894. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Simon Forman (1552 -1611), Elizabethan astrologer and doctor, oil on wood painting by an unknown artist, c. 1900, likely based on the earlier portrait by John Bulfinch, later engraved by Richard Godfrey in 1776. Wellcome Collection, London...

A 1982 photograph of Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005), a noted Nazi-hunter who dedicated his life to bringing fugitive Nazi war criminals to justice. (Dutch National Archives)

Simon Forman (1552-1611), Elizabethan doctor and astrologist. Engraving by Richard Godfrey was published in 1776 and was based on a portrait of Forman by John Bulfinch (active 1680-1728). Wellcome Collection, London.