Ancient Greek historian Thucydides has defined the identities of Greeks and  "barbarians" based on colonial influence.

Ancient Greek writers provide descriptions of a strange island where the inhabitants lived nude, deeply loved women and hated ...

Humans are silly beings. Even our history books can testify to this fact. In its pages lie stories of wars sparked by a ...

Once one of the most magnificent cities of the ancient world, Carthage was razed to the ground by the Romans in 146BC. Now its ruins, a Unesco World Heritage site, face new threats wrought by climate ...

One of the oldest temple complex sites (if not the oldest) is found in Ġgantija, on Malta's sister island of Gozo. This world heritage structure, protected by UNESCO, never fails to capture ...

Guilt can be good. It is healthy when it alerts us to having wronged someone and prompts us to put things right by apologising and repairing any damage we've done. But false guilt is not – the ...

Nero and Seneca, by Eduardo Barrón (1904). Source: Wikimedia commons/E Barrón/public domain. Tyranny is back on the table, but the ancients thought hard about how to avoid it. One of their most ...

The famous Carthaginian general Hannibal is, to this day, revered as one of the greatest tacticians in military history. Students at war colleges all over the world still study his innovations on the ...

A fantasy of Mussolini, a dream of Berlusconi and a challenge for Meloni – the longest in the world suspension bridge in the ...

The Battle of Zama was a decisive battle of the Second Punic War (also known as the Hannibalic War, or the War Against Hannibal), which was fought between Rome and Carthage. The battle was won by the ...

The Phoenicians founded one of antiquity’s greatest Mediterranean powers. An ambitious and powerful network of seafaring traders along the eastern Mediterranean coast, they built a commercial empire ...

Temple of Amun, east of Jebel Barkal, Sudan. Bertramz, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Africa has always been referenced in studies that reviewed the historical advancements of humans throughout ...