The very land we call "ours" once belonged to others. How did ancient people live on that land? What was important to them? Are we more alike than we are different? Explore this collection to find answers.
This slide highlights some of the myths involving a scene on the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. King Oinomaos, father of the beautif...
The word "Pesach" is pronounced PAY-sahch, with the "ch" sounding like the "ch" in the Scottish word "loch." It stands for "Passover," a holy da...
This map image depicts the route which Pliny the Elder took as he left Misenum (today's Capo Miseno) for the port town of Stabiae. He was planni...
This image depicts a bust of Plutarch at Chaeronea, his hometown in Greece. A famous writer, in ancient times, his still-studied book -&nbs...
Book-cover image of Raptors! The Nastiest Dinosaurs, by Don Lessem, illustrated by David Peters.
Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit, by David A. Traill, examines the work which Heinrich Schliemann did at Troy. Although he uncovere...
This book, by Tony Allan, uses data from 35 burial sites to examine what we can learn from people who lived before us. Using forensic, archeolog...
Dr. Glob spent a career as Director General of Museums and Antiquities in Denmark. As part of his work, he frequently examined really well-prese...
This book - by Howard Carter and A.C. Mace - was originally published in 1923 (with subsequent volumes in 1927 and 1933). The edition pictured a...
Bookcover image of The Gladiator: The Secret History Of Rome's Warrior Slaves, by Alan Baker.
The author of Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World calls the stand of Leonidas and his men, at Thermopylae, "a suicidally defining stan...
This book - Thermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World - provides in-depth background of the three-day battle. It was written by Paul ...
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