Laos, an officially neutral state, became a battleground of the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. From 1964 to 1973, the US Air Surveillance dropped two ...

The Arab Conquest of the 7th and 8th Centuries CE was rapid and far-ranging, as it resulted in an empire that spanned three continents and stretched from the Indus River to the Atlantic. It was also ...

If captured and given a choice of life or death, most chose life as double agents. The quest to obtain information led all to ...

Anarchism comes in many forms, some more individualistic, others more communal. Some anarchists advocate strong property rights, others push for their abolition. What all forms of anarchism have in ...

The second millennium, from a Christian perspective, is arguably best known for the Reformation and the religious conflict it caused. Most Christians know names such as Martin Luther and John Calvin ...

The Flood Tablet, Tablet 11 of the Gilgamesh epic, Neo-Assyrian, ca. 7th century BC; with The Palette of Narmer, 1st Dynasty; and The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC The alphabet we use to write today in the ...

Painting of the Gods in Palazzo Te, Giulio Romano, 1525, via Palazzo del Te in Mantua. The Greek god Hades’ name, in Ancient Greek “᾽Αιδης”, derives from the Ancient Greek word for “unseen”. This is ...

Ganymede (or Ganymedes) was a young man from Troy. His beauty was unparalleled, and for that reason, Zeus abducted and brought him to Olympus to serve as his cupbearer and lover. Ganymede’s myth is an ...

Much of the contemporary interest in Jacques Lacan and his ideas can be attributed to the popularity of Slavoj Žižek, and his avowedly Lacanian approach to philosophy and cultural criticism. One of ...

The history of Roman coins goes deep into the past, with the first true Roman coins introduced at the beginning of the 3rd century BCE. By the end of the 3rd century BCE, the silver denarius was first ...

The Homeric Hymn narrates the founding story for the Mysteries as well. Demeter, disguised as a human, arrives at Eleusis while searching for her daughter, and the city takes her in as a nurse. She ...

The Greek gods were divided into two categories: those above the earth and those below. The chthonic gods in Ancient Greece resided in or were associated with the underworld and the dead. The most ...