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No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...
It is no coincidence that the words city, citizen and civilisation are all cognates. It was only after the Neolithic Revolution, starting about 10,000 years ago, that humans developed agriculture and ...
This aspect of his kingship was lauded in the ancient ... Greece in 480 B.C. during the Greco-Persian wars, was foremost among these. The Greeks’ biased portrayal of the Persian monarchy has ...
The history of Insurance goes back to ancient Greece as people employed insurance-like practices, predominantly within ...
Created by digital artist Juanjo Ortega G., the digital reconstruction depicts a woman who died in her mid-30s during the ...
A theater that once overlooked ancient Lefkada in Greece is seeing the light of day more than a century after its initial ...
American academic Paul Chambers is currently in custody in Thailand for allegedly insulting the country’s monarchy, a crime punishable by years in prison in the Southeast Asian country.
The US has said it is "alarmed" by the arrest of an American academic in Thailand who has been charged with insulting the country's monarchy. Paul Chambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University who ...
BANGKOK -- A U.S scholar teaching in Thailand who was jailed on charges of insulting the country’s monarchy — an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison — was released on bail on ...
Thailand’s arrest of a prominent American academic on charges of insulting the monarchy has “alarmed” the United States, the State Department said, in a rare case of a foreign national ...