The great-grandson of the legendary Marcus Porcius Cato (the Censor), the younger Cato, orphaned at an early age, received his education through his maternal...
Spread of Buddhism
The practice of Buddhism spread in the centuries after the death of Gautama Buddha through the actions of pilgrims, wandering evangelists, and strong...
Who was Marcus Aurelius ?
Marcus Aurelius was the only Roman philosopher king, author of Meditations and last of the “good” emperors. The Pax Romana began...
Assyria
The country of Assyria encompasses the north of Mesopotamia, made up of city-states that were politically unified after the middle of the second millennium...
The city of Carthage in North Africa (modern-day Tunisia) was the capital of the Carthaginian empire that controlled parts of the Mediterranean from the...
Vietnam's history is intimately tied, for better or for worse, to its long relationship with China. The impact of Chinese cultural and political forms...
Sound-producing sand avalanches
Sound-producing sand grains constitute one of nature’s more puzzling and least understood physical phenomena. They occur naturally in two distinct types: booming...
XV. Romolo e Remo is a 1961 film based on the legend of Romulus and Remus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoydKmph6JY
XIV. The Avenger is a 1962 film Aeneas leads escaped survivors of the Trojan war...
Creation of the Union
The close connection between Denmark with Norway in 1380 was the first step towards the realization of the union. The vigorous...
Early Life and Succession
Mithradates II Great King of Parthia, belonged to the Arsacid dynasty and ruled about 124/123 - 88/87 B.C. Justin (Latin Historian)...
