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Mesopotamia is an ancient region in the Middle East, east of the Mediterranean by the Zagros mountains, between the two rivers Tigris and Euphrates. The name ‘Mesopotamia’ comes from the Greek meaning...

The Zulu Kingdom emerged in the early 19th century as a centralized and militarized state under Shaka Zulu (reign c. 1816–1828), whose reforms reshaped...

Often misconstrued as a culture obsessed with death, the ancient Egyptians viewed death and the afterlife as an intimately connected continuance to life itself. Though funerary processions...

This is a map of Augusta Raurica and nearby cities in what was formerly Roman Switzerland. These cities and towns were occupied by the Celtic Raurici tribe before and after the Roman conquest of Switzerland...

Map of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East c. 1300 BCE, showing the period of Great Powers, with the six large kingdoms and empires (the Hittites, the Mycenaean Civilization, Assyria, Babylonia...

National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 215. 330-20 BCE. This relief slab is one of four that made up the revetment of a pedestal (only three survive), and was found at Mantineia, Arcadia. The pedestal either acted as a base...

The altar and nave of Saint Hripsime Church in Etchmiadzin (Vagharshapat), Armenia. The church dates from the early 7th century CE, and it is one of the finest and most complicated of medieval Armenian churches...

This historical map depicts the surroundings of Lille and Courtray and is intended to facilitate the understanding of the Battles of Tourcoing and Pont-à-Chin in 1794...

This map depicts the boundaries of all major civilizations in East Asia at the beginning of the Three Kingdoms Period of China, with italics indicating nomadic bands and other tribal...

This family tree shows all the rulers of Carthage mentioned in extant ancient Greek and Roman sources (and three from a Punic inscription) from circa 550 to 306 BCE. It also indicates the Carthaginian commanders...