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Marriage in Ancient Mesopotamia and Babylonia
An overview of modern marriage and family origins.

The Notorious Nero

Alcibiades (BC 450 - 404)
An overview of the famous Athenian general.

A Different Horse: Alternate Interpretations of the Trojan War
The story of the Trojan War, as recounted in Homer's Illiad, Odyssey and in The Aeneid of Virgil, have for centuries been viewed as either literal truth or as a legend.

The Ionian Revolt
About 2500 years ago, the Persian Empire was expanding through Asia and into Asia Minor (the area between the Black and Mediterranean Seas) and taking control of the eastern world. It was this action that eventually provoked the Ionian revolt which marked the beginning of the long confrontation between the Greek and Persian empires.

The Battle of Actium
The battle of Actium ended decades of Roman civil war and resulted in the rise of the first Roman Emperor.

The Burning of the Library of Alexandria
The loss of the ancient world's single greatest archive of knowledge, the Library of Alexandria, has been lamented for ages. But how and why it was lost is still a mystery. The mystery exists not for lack of suspects but from an excess of them.

Oracle of Delphi
The world famous Oracle of Delphi played an influential role in ancient history.

Ancient Battle Tanks
One of the strangest innovations in warfare began around 4000 BC with the training of elephants in the Indus River Valley.



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