Scholars often divide the history of ancient Greece into six relatively distinct periods, but only five of them belong to the history of those ethnically Greek.
Though often included in Greek history, the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete and its contemporaries – the Helladic civilisation of mainland Greece and…
Every now and then a news story comes to light about the so-called Celtic mummies of China. The story has been making rounds for most of this century, from scientific conferences to ABCNews.
Without detracting from the wonder that is the Cherchen mummies, let’s set the record straight concerning the Celticness of these…
In today’s PodCast we’re using a few highlights to look at just how much – or how little – has really changed in terms of marriage and divorce from 4,000 years ago until the present.
Before the Nazis inadvertently made the word Aryan taboo in polite society, the word used to refer to a distant ancestor of (most) modern Europeans. If your grade school teacher, like mine, was of an older make, you may have been on the receiving end of a lecture on an ancient Indian people from…
