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 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).

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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.