When reflecting on the ancient world, historians often break societies down into groups of people such as citizens, slaves, nobility or soldiers ... to sabotage the mooring ropes and anchors of ...

When the trees were cut, the unfortunate fellow would be torn apart. The rebel leader Procopius was executed in this manner in AD 366. This method of execution was also sometimes used in Ancient ...

The difference in ancient paradises reveals a shared human desire for a perfect afterlife, though the details vary ...

Alexander the Great's siege of the island city of Tyre used all the innovation and cunning worthy of a conqueror still known ...

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...

Up to 17 million people have passed through the slave trade in the Muslim world since the 7th century. Tragically, the ...

Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...

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