Hundred- gated Thebes
In the Iliad Homer famously described the city as “hundred- gated Thebes.” However, Thebes is better understood as an entire site that...
World’s first sophisticated medical practice
Sometime before 2000 BCE, Egyptian priests began to develop the world’s first sophisticated medical practice. Although it is believed that...
Typography was invented twice: once in China and Korea and in medieval Europe. In China, printing was invented, according to some data (Julien, "Documents...
The first invasion
The first officially organized invasion of North Africa by the Caliphate began in 647. After leaving Medina, 20,000 Arabs joined in Memphis...
The first invasion
It began with the conquest of the Middle East. Byzantium lost the Levant, and the Sassanid state lost Mesopotamia.
The confrontation with Byzantium...
Lower and Middle Paleolithic
During the excavations on the territory of the Sahara in Ain al-Khaneh (Ain el Hanech) near the Algerian city of Said,...
William Rufus or William the Red
William II (Rufus), a passionate, greedy ruffian, second son of the Conqueror, designated by his father on his deathbed (Robert, the...
The Roman emperor Caracalla (or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) issued the Edict of Caracalla, also known as the Constitutio Antoniniana or Edict of Antoninus, in...
The Seven Sages or Seven Wise Men was the title given by ancient Greek tradition to seven early-6th-century BC philosophers, statesmen, and law-givers who were renowned in the following centuries for...
