Life in Ancient Crete Part I: Minos
Charles Seltman
Ancient
Delphi Part II: The Other God
Charles Seltman analyses the role of the darker deity in Ancient Greece. Second of a two part series. The first part can be read here.
Delphi Part I: Pythian Apollo
Charles Seltman visits the Holiest Place of the Greeks. Part I of a two part series. Second part can be read here.
Changing Britain: Stone Age to the Saxon Conquest
Certain mysteries of pre-Saxon Britain are decoded by Jacquetta Hawkes
Books and Alphabets
Julian Huxley traces the development of writing and language, and expounds on its meaning for humanity.
The Birth of Civilization
Sir Julian Huxley examines the debates and mysteries that surround humanity's earliest moves towards mass society.
Sennacherib’s Experiment: Cotton Reaches the West
G. Goossens recalls the Assyrian monarchs, noted for their ferocity, great libraries, and achievements in agriculture and engineering.
Peru Before Pizarro
C.A. Burland describes the highly developed, sprawling and ancient Incan civilisation in the years preceding its conquest by the Spanish seaborne empire.
Historians Reconsidered: Tacitus
A great historian of an age he disliked, Harold Mattingly shows how Tacitus has given posterity an incomparable picture of the early Roman Empire.
Water Crises in the Ancient World
The need to manage the water supply has always been a driver of human history, argues Steven Mithen.