The Greeks, a people known to be glorious and arrogant, valiant and headstrong, these were the men and women who laid the very foundations for western civilization. Their monuments still recall perhaps the most extraordinary two centuries in history, a time which saw the birth of science, politics, philosophy, literature and drama.It was a period in time which saw levels of art and architectur
Ancient Egypt, a rich history that lasted for over 6,000 years. The lives and deaths of its leading characters still fascinate us to this day and when we visit museums featuring exhibitions on this period of our history we typically encounter monumental statues of monumental men but where exactly are all the women of ancient Egypt?The most famous of these women is of course Cleopatra The Great
Around 25 years after the death of Jesus Christ, the movement he had inspired split into two factions, these factions held very different views of their leader, his identity, message and vision. A power struggle quickly ensued and one of these factions under the guiding genius of St. Paul emerged the winner.Eventually he had written his version of Jesus's story in the Gospels of the New Testam
In the year 1162 deep in the heart of Asia a child was born, he was clutching a blood clot, a so called sign from heaven that he was destined to be a great warrior. His life was to become a legend, his name was Genghis Khan. Many believe his story is a simple one, that being he was the incarnation of evil, a brutal barbarian that butchered millions of people. The real character of Genghis however
While Europe endured the so called Dark Ages, Ancient China reigned supreme as the worlds technological superpower, it is only now that we are discovering that many of the inventions that shape our modern world have there roots in this remarkable oriental civilisation.Some examples of these advancements are complex geared machines, that allowed production on an industrial scale, precision seismo
Alexander The Great the shining light of Ancient Greece, the prince from remote Macedonia would become the greatest conquer of all time. No one would have thought that someone would have tried to conquer the whole world, yet alone almost succeed.He was the first European to establish an Empire, an Empire which stretched from the Mediterranean to the end of the known world. Fame on the battlefiel
The most famous death in history is the death of Jesus of Nazareth. 2,000 years ago in first century Jerusalem he was crucified by the Romans, the Gospels tell us he was buried in a tomb and two days later Marry Magdalene one of his closest disciples found the tomb empty.But according the Gospel of Mathew there was another story circulating after Jesus's death and though gospel calls it a lie
An ancient temple is discovered in the Middle East, it's thousands of years older than the Egyptian pyramids and it even dates long before the earliest civilisations like the Mesopotamians, the Minoan and the Mayan. It was built when mankind was still in the Stone Age but who built this temple and why?To solve the mystery, one mantravels back 12,000 years to the end of the last ic
Of all the founding fathers Thomas Jefferson is the most complex and enigmatic, he is a man with an ever changing portrait one which is full of contradictions, he's a champion if individual liberty who owned slaves all his life, a fiscal conservative who lives deeply in debt, an agrarian idealist who thrives in big cities, a master politician who dislikes confrontation and fears governme