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Joseph Stalin's policy to collect private farms into cooperatives and wholly state-owned farms across the USSR began in 1928. Stalin hoped the process of collectivisation would modernise Soviet agriculture...

The distinctive Roman theater was last used as a playhouse and a venue for religious festivals and political meetings in Augusta Raurica, which is located in present-day Switzerland. Before that it had been altered...

The riverside town of Stein-am-Rhein, located in the canton of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland, is arguably the country's best-preserved (and prettiest) medieval town. Lying at the point where the Rhine River...

Hadrian’s African journey (128 CE) was a concentrated inspection of Rome’s military establishment and southern frontier in North Africa. Travelling from Rome...

Under Philip II of Macedon (reign 359–336 BCE) and Alexander the Great (reign 336–323 BCE), the somatophylakes (“bodyguards”) formed an exceptionally exclusive circle of trusted...

“The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have changed” ~ Blaise Pascal, Pensées 162. On the basis of portrait coins struck by Cleopatra, philosophers such as Blaise Pascal...

Matariki is the name of a star cluster that can be seen from New Zealand in the early morning of the months in mid-winter. New Zealand's Matariki is the name for the Maori New Year and...

The St. Margaret’s Chapel and Royal Magdalene Almshouses in Glastonbury, Somerset. A chapel dedicated to St. Margaret was built in the 1070s CE on Magdalene Street, originally as a hospital, but...

Remains of Cimon's tomb on the path over Filopappou Hill in Athens

A fable is a short story that usually includes animals that act like people as the main characters and conveys a moral or a lesson to be learnt. Aesop’s Fables (which come to a total of 725, although modern editions...