Images

The Bronze Age collapse at the end of the 13th century BCE saw a great many changes in the ancient world. Many second millennium states disappeared entirely, as cities were destroyed and peoples migrated. Others underwent a process of transformation...

A map showing the political divisions in ancient Egypt during the Third intermediate Period, about 730 BC. The rulers of the 22nd and 23rd Dynasties ruled simultaneously, alongside Libyan chieftains controlling most of the Delta.

Nothern Africa under Roman rule. From H.Kiepert (1879), Historischer Schulatlas.

Map of the Poverty Point archaeological site, Louisiana.

Alexander The Great and Roxane (1756) by Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707–1762). Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Celarius, 1742.

Hypatia of Alexandria, played by Rachel Weisz in the motion picture Agora (2009).

The first Cypriots mostly lived in Khirokitia, a small village near the modern town of Limassol.

Heraclitus of Ephesos, painting from the 17th century by Johannes Moreelse.

Detail from the map “Bosporus, Maeotis, Iberia, Albania et Sarmatia Asiatica “ by CHRISTOPHORUS CELLARIUS (1638-1707), from the book “Notitiae Orbis Antiqui sive Geographiae Plenioris Tomus Alter Asiam et Africam“, printed in Leipzig by Gleditschi...