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Dzalisa is an archaeological site in Georgia dating back to the ancient kingdom of Iberia. It is situated in the Mukhrani valley, some 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) northwest of Mtskheta, and features remnants of a fortified city and various structures...

Carthage (traditionally founded c. 814/813 BCE; destroyed 146 BCE) emerged from the wider Phoenician colonial world to become the leading Punic power in the western Mediterranean. From roughly the 7th century BCE, its influence expanded through...

The Knights Templar were established c. 1119 and given papal recognition in 1129. It was a Catholic medieval military order whose members combined martial prowess with a monastic life to defend Christian holy sites and pilgrims in the Middle...

The Migration Period, also called the Barbarian Invasions or German: Völkerwanderung (wandering of the peoples), was a period of human migration that occurred roughly between 300 to 700 CE in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity...

Justinian I reigned as emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 527 to 565 CE. Born around 482 CE in Tauresium, a village in Illyria, his uncle Emperor Justin I was an imperial bodyguard who reached the throne on the death of Anastasius in 518...

Map of the Roman Empire at its maximum extent in 117 CE, under the rule of Trajan.

Between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE, the Mediterranean functioned as a highly interconnected zone of maritime exchange, shaped by the expanding networks of Phoenician and Hellenic communities. Originating from the Levant, Phoenician traders...

The Knights Hospitaller was a medieval Catholic military order founded in 1113 CE with the full name of 'Knights of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem'. After their base was relocated to Rhodes in the early 14th century...

The warriors of Celtic Europe were amongst the most distinctive of any fighters in the ancient world. With their great height, long hair and moustaches, frequent nakedness, painted and tattooed bodies, and fondness for collecting enemy heads...

Art, along with language, is perhaps the best way to see the connections between the ancient peoples we label as Celts who lived in Iron Age Europe. There were great variations across time and space but common features of ancient Celtic art...