This is the first volume to map Egypt's ... of Egypt in the Eastern Mediterranean region over a long period of time.’ H-Soz-Kult ‘(these essays) open a window on an important period of transition in ...

The world map shows what a unique location the Mediterranean ... significant libraries of the ancient world. The first intellectual developments emerged in the eastern Mediterranean and focused ...

Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean ... reader with new insights into a variety of issues. The maps are useful ...

The sun moving across the commonly cloudless Mediterranean sky gave them their direction and quarter. The quarters we know today as east and west ... built elaborate maps out of palm twigs and ...

A survey has identified a "major" urban area in a mountainous area of Uzbekistan at an altitude of more than 6,000 feet.

An ancient temple made by Arabian immigrants from the Nabataean culture has finally been found off the Italian coast ...

Jerry Brotton hails from northern England, and in “Four Points of the Compass,” he notes that the caricatures associated with ...

Its eastern border is somewhere in “India ... is anchored in Homer and our translated understanding of the ancient ...

An international study has found assumptions on the sex and relationships of individuals found in the ruins of the ancient ...

A Balkan country in eastern Europe ... I looked at a map: Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and ...

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

The ancient Library of Alexandria, built in the city founded by Alexander the Great, was one of the greatest wonders of the world.