Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

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and dissolute power that ruled Ancient Assyria. In this world you had to kill to be king. Or, in the case of Semiramis, an orphan raised on the outskirts of an empire: Queen. Nothing about ...

Revolving around two career criminals and a Thameside mansion, The Burial Plot is a gripping historical thriller about murder ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

$27.99) stretches as far back as the Greek historians Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, who wrote of a powerful woman they called Semiramis, ruler of a vast Middle Eastern empire in the ninth ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military ...

In trying to understand the present it is helpful to examine it from the perspective of the past. In the Book of Judges, we find the familiar story of Samson ...