The list that we have today "only became fixed in the Renaissance," archaeologists Peter Clayton and Martin Price wrote in the book "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" (Routledge, 1988).

The "Book of the Dead" is a modern-day name given to a series of ancient Egyptian texts that ... Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at the University of California, Los Angeles ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece.

Until further revelations come to light, the world waits in uneasy anticipation, wondering whether this ancient book holds a prophecy—or a warning.

Books were often dangerous. In the ancient world copies of great but contentious ... lover is the most beautiful sight of all.”) At school it was a woman, tall, thin and nervous, who taught ...

The ruins of the School of Aristotle are located just two miles from the contemporary town of Naoussa, in the Greek region of ...

an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family, now spoken by over 40% of humanity. Now research led by David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School ...

The mastery of Latin and ancient ... school Latin teacher. The prose is very lightly archaic and vaguely biblical, which helps to establish the author’s claim to an authoritative knowledge of ...

When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what struck me most, despite many fascinating cultural variants, was the uniformity, and limitation of the human ...

(Egypt’s Great Pyramids are one of the most iconic wonders of the ancient world.) Alexander ... Justin Pollard and Howard Reid, Penguin Books, New York, 2007.

These Letters from Egypt, which richly detailed her time in the country, were published a year later as a book. By vividly ... civilisations in the ancient world, but also how tourists travelled ...

Atop Mount Nemrut lies what some call the eighth wonder of the world: a religious sanctuary of 10 colossal statues surrounding a mound believed to hold the tomb of an ancient king. These ...