by Heba Abd el Gawad and Usama Ali Gad. Description: Shivaike Shah talks to Dr Heba Abd El Gawad from University College London and Dr Usama Ali Gad from Ain Shams University in Cairo about the colonisation of…
by Christa Steinby Abstract: Steinby provides an account of the Second Punic War which shows that whilst there were relatively few direct naval engagements in the Second Punic War, events at sea should not be…
By Melvyn Bragg (host), Mary Beard, Jo Quinn and Ellen O’Gorman (guests) Abstract: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Destruction of Carthage. The North African city of Carthage was rich and powerful, but in the…
By Adrienne Mayor It was long assumed that Amazons, the fierce and fearsome women warriors of Greece, were imaginary. But curiously enough, stories from ancient Egypt, Persia, the Middle East, Central Asia, India and…
By The British Museum A trail set up by the British Museum for Pride month, this source looks at LBGTQ+ ancient history by re-examining history and myth to consider queer themes. Some of these question the…
By Hannah Cornwell Abstract: In this article, Cornwell examines the place of imperialism in the Roman mindset. She shows that the extension of Roman influence abroad was conceived of by some as a profoundly ethical…
By Diana Pickworth Abstract: In this article, Pickworth summarises the findings of the 1989-1990 University of California excavations around the defensive Halzi Gate at Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire and once…
By Shelby Brown Abstract: Brown tracks the development of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia from the pictographic phase, when it was used to manage basic administration, to the adoption of the triangular reed stylus…
By Patricia Maynor Bikai Abstract: Bikai uses Cyprus to explore the post-Bronze Age Collapse expansion of Phoenician trade in the Mediterranean, suggesting that this was used to relieve population pressures and to…
By Miriam Kamil Abstract: Kamil explores bleeding trees as an important motif in ancient literature both in the West and the East, suggesting that ‘transcultural anxiety around the wellbeing of trees’ has racked…
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