Ancient History

How Did the Assyrians Conquer Egypt?

By Heather Reilly, in Ancient History

10 Important Sites of the Celtic World

By Rachel Sweeney, in Ancient History

The Assyrian Conquest of Babylon (What Really Happened?)

By Heather Reilly, in Ancient History

The Jōmon Period: Japan’s Mysterious Origin Story

By Greg Beyer, in Ancient History

The 3 Most Infamous Praetorian Plots That (Un)Made Roman Emperors

By Kieren Johns, in Ancient History

The First Punic War: A Clash of Cultures

By Christopher Nelson, in Ancient History

What Is Egyptian Blue? From Ancient Art to Modern Science

By Emily Snow, in Ancient History

Plutarch & His Parallel Lives: The Biographer of Greece & Rome

By Jessica Suess, in Ancient History

9 Myths About the Greek God Hephaestus

By Daniel Soulard, in Ancient History

8 Myths About the Greek God Ares

By Daniel Soulard, in Ancient History

The Forgotten Son of Claudius Who Never Became an Emperor

By Jessica Suess, in Ancient History

The Iconography of Augustus’s Ara Pacis in Rome

By Jessica Suess, in Ancient History

Was Camelot Inspired by a Real Location?

By Caleb Howells, in Ancient History

How Virgil Made Aeneas an Epic Hero

By Lucie de Gentile, in Ancient History

9 Myths About Hermes From Greek Mythology

By Daniel Soulard, in Ancient History

How the Byzantines Retook Crete From the Arabs in the Siege of Chandax

By Jean du Plessis, in Ancient History

How Ancient Assyria Used Religion to Become a Superpower

By Heather Reilly, in Ancient History

Ptolemy I Soter, the Successor of Alexander Who Became a Pharaoh

By Jared Krebsbach, in Ancient History

Rome vs. the Alamanni at the Battle of Strasbourg (357 CE)

By Kieren Johns, in Ancient History

Sulla’s Brutal Siege of Athens (87-86 BCE)

By Kieren Johns, in Ancient History

How Pompeii’s Bodies Are Preserved, Frozen in Time

By Anastasiia Kirpalov, in Ancient History

What the Sanctuary of Odysseus Reveals About Ancient Greek Beliefs

By Emily Snow, in Ancient History

Why Did Pausanias Write His Travel Guide to Ancient Greece?

By Neil Middleton, in Ancient History

What Caused the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire?

By Mike Cohen, in Ancient History

The Debasement of Roman Coinage During the Third-Century Crisis

By Neven Rogić, in Ancient History

What Is the Most Visited Wonder of the World?

By Greg Beyer, in Ancient History

Disaster for Sparta! The Battle of Sphacteria (425 BCE)

By Jean du Plessis, in Ancient History

Battle of Cynoscephalae: Macedonian Phalanx vs Roman Legion

By Neil Middleton, in Ancient History

6 Facts About Freyr, the Norse God of Virility & Fertility

By Jessica Suess, in Ancient History

The Story of Cleisthenes:, the Founder of Democracy in Ancient Athens

By Neil Middleton, in Ancient History