Biological and cultural roots of the Native Americans
Dental morphology, genetics, and archaeology show that the biological and cultural roots of the Native Americans lie...
X. The Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire , also known as the Portuguese Overseas, was one of the largest and longest-lived empires in world history and...
The Archimedean screw
While in Egypt, Archimedes invented the device that is mostly closely associated with him by
name, the Archimedean screw. This is a helix...
The first quantity that people could measure
The first quantity that people could measure with any degree of accuracy, and on which all people could...
Mathematical knowledge of the ancient world
Because baked clay tablets with cuneiform symbols impressed are easily preserved, especially in a dry climate, much is known...
Western civilization in Antiquity
Western civilization in Antiquity forms a continuous society with different state organizations stretching from the time of Homer and Hesiod in...
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)...