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Second Wave Civilizations
A map illustrating the rise and spread of the Second Wave Civilizations between c. 500 BCE and 200 CE (including the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, and India).
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Second-Wave Civilization Natural Resources and Trade
A map illustrating the rise and spread of the Second Wave Civilizations between c. 500 BCE and 200 CE (including the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, and India) with the flows of trade in major goods and resources.
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The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky
The Ninth Wave, oil on canvas painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850. Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. The painting depicts the sea after a huge night storm and people injured in a shipwreck. The sun's rays illuminate the huge waves...
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Prodigies: Earthquake Perception from Julius to L'Aquila
The beauty of being an archaeologist is having the good fortune to find something on an archaeological dig that remains in a relatively good state of preservation. In various degrees, there are those who study how nature can actually help...
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Second-Wave Civilizations Population Centers
A map illustrating the rise and spread of the Second-Wave Civilizations between c. 500 BCE and 200 CE, including the most notable urban settlements where civilizations flourished, transforming societies through trade, cultural exchange, and...
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Beneath the Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) produced a series of ukiyo-e woodblock prints known as the 'Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji' (Fugaku Sanjurokkei). One of the set, 'Beneath the Wave off Kanagawa', is perhaps the most famous of all Japanese artworks...
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First-Wave / Earliest Civilizations
A map illustrating the earliest stages of human civilization spanning from c. 8000 BCE to 2000 BCE. It showcases the emergence of organized societies, agricultural practices, and the origins of urbanization.
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War in Ancient Times
The word 'war' comes to English from the old High German language word Werran (to confuse or to cause confusion) through the Old English Werre (meaning the same), and is a state of open and usually declared armed conflict between political...
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Operation Chastise
Operation Chastise, the 'Dambusters' raid, was an attack by a squadron of RAF Lancaster bombers on the dams of the Ruhr basin in Germany in May 1943. Led by Squadron Leader Guy Gibson, the bombers breached two dams causing enormous flooding...
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Menehune
Menehune is the term applied to short-statured, forest-dwelling creatures of Hawaiian mythology and is part of a common mythology throughout Polynesia that describes secretive, supernatural beings with human-like attributes. Mysterious supernatural...