Hannibal crosses the Alps on an elephant. Credit: Nicolas Poussin Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast have recently released results that may have answered one of ancient history’s greatest enigmas: Where did Hannibal cross the Alps? Hannibal was the Commander-in-Chief of the Carthaginian […]
The Vikings’ ships were the greatest technical and artistic achievement of the European Dark Ages. Without these great ships the Viking Age would never had happened and the success of the Vikings would never have been as far-stretched. Unfortunately, very few remains of Viking ships have been discovered. One Viking ship that can provide us […]
Antiochus I, an Armenian king whose lineage connected him to the Seleucids, Ptolemies, and Macedonians, ruled the small territory of Commagene in Asia Minor in the 1st century B.C. In 64 B.C., Commagene became a Roman province when Antiochus reached a peaceful agreement with Pompey, who had just conquered Syria. Five years later the Roman […]
Question: What was the Royal Game Of Ur? Answer: In the ancient world, board games were as popular as they are today. Board games were very common in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and other parts of the world. The Royal Game of Ur is a board game made between 2600 and 2400 BC. So it’s at least […]
Six official clay seals found by a Mississippi State University archaeological team at a small site in Israel indicate that the biblical kings David and Solomon were ‘not fiction’ – they really existed. Many modern scholars dismiss David and Solomon as mythological figures and believe no kingdom could have existed in the region at the […]
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