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Mesopotamian science and technology developed during the Uruk period (circa 4000-3100 BCE) and the Early Dynastic period (circa 2900-2350/2334 BCE) of the Sumerian culture of southern Mesopotamia. The foundation of future Mesopotamian advances...

The city of Akkad was the seat of the Akkadian Empire (2350/2334-2154 BCE), the first multinational political entity in the world, founded by Sargon the Great, who unified Mesopotamia under his rule and set the model for later Mesopotamian...

The term 'mythology' comes from the Greek mythos (story-of-the-people) and logos (word or speech), meaning the spoken story of a people. Every civilization of the ancient world developed a belief system, which is characterized as 'mythology'...

The Norman Conquest of 1066 CE brought sophisticated motte and bailey castle architecture to England but it was really in the 12th and 13th centuries CE that stone castle-building reached its zenith. Edward I of England (r. 1272-1307 CE...

The Greek poet Hesiod (c. 700 BCE) is most famous for his works Theogony and Works and Days. In this passage from Theogony, Hesiod relates the birth of the gods from cosmic Chaos and follows the lineage through the great Zeus, King of the...

Lakota Sioux warrior and "sacred clown" One Bull (l. c. 1853-1947), brother of White Bull and nephew of Sitting Bull. Photograph by Dr. George P. Dix, Joshua Bradford Bailey, and John L. Mead, 1882. American Philosophical Society Digital...

This is the so-called "Silahtarağa Statuary Group". The remains came to light during excavations for the foundations of a building on the road between the quarter Eyub and Alibeykoy near the Golden Horn. Between 1949-1950 many fragments of...

This topographic and military map was created to support the understanding of the Battle of Stockach, won by Archduke Charles in 1799, as well as the Battles of Engen and Moskirch, won by the Army of the Rhine in 1800. It presents in detail...

This mid-1st Century BCE mural portrays a statue of Venus and the infant Cupid in the Temple of Venus Genitrix, Rome. The statue has been identified as the infamous gilded statue of Cleopatra VII as Venus that Julius Caesar unveiled during...

Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature in Samson and Delilah (1949). The ancient Israelite judge Samson was betrayed by his lover Delilah, who was sent to him by his enemies, the Philistines. ©Paramount Pictures Studios.