Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr
Israel and Judah flourished for centuries as kingdoms on the margins of the Near East's great empire
The roots of ancient Judaism, and the Abrahamic religions, are to be found in the arid hills and fer
Professor Ian Armit has ranged both widely and deeply over the study of European prehistory, examini
Thanks to cutting-edge tools, archaeologists can study the lives of past people in ways that were ne
What really happened in the last years of the 6th century BC? The Romans believed that this was the
The Hallstatt Culture defines the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age in Contine
While the Mediterranean world was experiencing its Bronze Age Collapse and the beginnings of the Iro
How and why did so many people come to Rome in the Archaic Period, and how did it become a city? Dr.
Ideas, goods, and fashions bounced around from place to place in the Iron Age Mediterranean, the mos
Iberia is the hinge between worlds: Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. That was
What was Rome like before it became one of the biggest cities in the ancient world? How did its earl
Rome eventually became the heart of one of the largest and most powerful empires the world has ever
When we think of the ancient Mediterranean, our minds first turn to familiar names, such as the Gree
The Etruscans are often called "mysterious," but we actually know quite a bit about them, from their
One of the best ways to understand how the ancient world functioned is to think in terms of networks
At the beginning of the Iron Age, around 950 BC, Italy was a land of farming villages; just a few ce
Archaic Greece went through some of the most explosive and rapid transformations of any ancient soci
In the space of just a few decades toward the end of the 8th century BC, Greek colonies sprang up ac
Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones, authors of the new book How Data Happened: A History from the Age o
Despite their obvious importance to understanding the Iron Age and Classical Mediterranean, the Phoe
