Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countr
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
In the year 800 BC, Greece was an unremarkable corner of the Aegean. Over the next century, however,
Soon after 1000 BC, Phoenicians began to take ever-longer voyages away from their homeland. Within j
Few places weathered the Bronze Age Collapse better than the Levant, the strip of land bordering the
Every historian I know has a secret dream of writing historical fiction, but few ever do it. Dan Jon
After the Bronze Age Collapse, Greece changed dramatically. The palaces were gone, long-distance tra
Sergeant Jill Evans is a small town cop in Wales with an impressive record in her job, and a less th
The Iron Age Mediterranean's new density of connections between people and places was about more tha
