The Suda, the massive tome written by a Byzantine scholar around the year 1100, was one of the world's first encyclopedias and lexicons.

Lujiazui was named after Lu Shen (1477-1544), a Ming Dynasty scholar and collector, who spent much of his life there. The ...

The workers began digging near a hospital in Birkirkara in September to install new water lines. As they dug, the team ...

Researchers uncovered a tiny house called the "House of Phaedra" during excavation work in the ancient city of Pompeii, Italy ...

Yusif Aghayev's book "Military art of the XI-XIII centuries in the works of the great Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi" has ...

The Mesopotamians kept the earliest records of goods traded and received and these activities are related to the early record-keeping of the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians ... Fremont College.

Does Herodotus' description of the inhabitants of ancient Palestine support the Bible's account of the origin of the ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

Originally celebrated among ancient Celts in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland over 2,000 years ago, the celebration was a time of elation and revelry when the veil between the living and the dead was ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

The ancient Roman writer Pliny the Elder, who lived in the first century AD, was concerned about the way human beings were abusing Earth. In his work titled Natural History, he wrote: We taint the ...

In fact, the UK has invaded more countries than other nation in history. It has fought in conflicts ... It is widely considered to be the longer- lasting Empire. Meanwhile, the ancient Egyptian ...