Epic Of Gilgamesh: The Search For Immortality
The Epic of Gilgamesh records the search of Gilgamesh, King of the Sumerian City of Uruk to obtain the Immortality of the Anunnaki Gods,…
Ancient Civilizations
The Islamic Golden Age
By the 7th Century the Islamic Empire had been established in the Arabian Peninsula, and the Islamic Golden Age would emerge as a result…
The Lost Civilization Of Mapungubwe
The Lost Civilization Of Mapungubwe in Limpopo Province, South Africa is one of Southern Africa’s most important Lost Civilizations. Origins Of The Lost Mapungubwe…
How Beer Created Civilization
Beer helped start Civilization over 10,000 years back in Ancient Mesopotamia and Sumer, when hunter gatherers found by accident that barley remaining in a…
Political Propaganda Art In Ancient Mesopotamia
Art As Propaganda In Ancient Mesopotamia In Propaganda In Ancient Sumeria, we considered the use of Culture in the form of Epics such as…
The Ancient Origins Of Babylonian Astrology
Known as the Royal Science in Ancient times, Astronomy dates to Ancient Sumer in the Second Millenium BC. Its the first known system of…
Rise Of Civilization: The Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire is known for being the world’s first empire founded by Sargon Of Akkad circa 2300 BC, and introducing the concept of…
Rise Of The Asante Empire
The Asante Empire rose to power during the 17th Century in what is now modern day Ghana when the Asante, an Akan-speaking people established…
The Mos Maiorum: Moral Code Of Ancient Rome
The rise and fall of the Ancient Roman Empire can be understood once the importance of the Mos Maiorum as a moral code in…
The Kushite Nubian Pharaohs Of Egypt
Black Nubian Pharaohs Of Ancient Egypt From The Kingdom Of Kush The story of Egypt’s Black Pharaohs from Kush was almost extinguished by the…
The Amorites Of Babylon
The rise of the Amorites of Babylon came after the Sumerian Renaissance and it paved the way for the rise of Babylon as a…
The Roman Siege Of Jerusalem
The Roman Empire depended on the Imperial Cult which required that residents of the Empire worship the Roman Emperor as a God. While the…