Pericles dreamed of creating a Panhellenic city and for this he enlisted some of the best Greek intellectuals of the time. The story begins around 720 B.C. when the Achaeans of Helice and Troezen founded a colony in Magna Graecia, at the western end of the interior of the Gulf of Taranto. They call
A new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people in southern Britain during the Bronze Age. Led by the University of York, Harvard Medical School and the University of Vienna, it shows that people who moved into southern Britain around 1300-800 B.C. they were responsible for about half t
The Stuart royal house she was the rightful trustee of Scotland in the same way that the Highland chiefs and Lowland heads of families were, by custom, the protectors of her kinsmen. Dynastic legitimacy was perceived as the source of justice and the basis of government, but both were threatened in S
During the afternoon of December 2, 1941, the General Staff of the Japanese XXVth Army and Lieutenant-Colonel Kera, responsible for the transport of troops, scanned the sea from their headquarters in the port of Samah, in the island of Hai - Nah, off Indochina. Twenty transports were expected to emb