Long before Romans or Greeks, ancient seafarers from the Near East founded ports across Spain and the wider Mediterranean. With their own records lost and history written by rivals, this episode ...

How did Romans invest their wealth in ancient times?

Carthage began as a Phoenician trading outpost and grew into a Mediterranean empire that challenged Rome itself. This chapter follows Phoenician expansion, navigation, and colonization, before tracing ...

Ancient Rhodes was not merely an island; it was a sophisticated maritime power that defined the Hellenistic world.

"A plague is upon us'' may have been a common phrase in ancient Jordan, where countless people perished from a mysterious ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Traces of color preserved in the stone are changing how historians understand what was lost when Alexander burned Persepolis.

In search of a prehistoric state -- Research setting -- The archaeology of complex societies and ancient states -- Forms of complexity in Southeast Asia -- War in the world, war in Southeast Asia -- ...

Pope Leo XIV closed the door at St. Peter’s Basilica on Jan. 6, 2026, just days into the new year. The act formally brought ...