Said to be one of the most attractive late 1800s churches in Cornwall, it is very un-Cornish in appearance. Under its steep ...

Tuttul was a religious centre which was strategically located at modern Tell Bi'a (or Tell Bian, near Raqqa), where it could control the confluence of the River Balikh with the Euphrates in ancient ...

Late medieval Ethiopia in the form of the kingdom of Axum was not the Ethiopia of today, with its fixed borders and relatively large volume of territory. Imperial Ethiopia was much smaller and its ...

Golconda was a kingdom which existed in central India in the sixteenth century, to the south of Rajasthan in modern Andhra Pradesh state. In 1321 the rule of Delhi passed to the Tughlaq dynasty.

Many of the Late Bronze Age cultures of Europe are shown here. The primary focus is on the Urnfield culture and its regional offshoots, and the two main non-Mediterranean Bronze Age systems. It was ...

The ancient region of the Indus lay on the eastern side of the Hindu Kush mountains. Although rarely defined with any specific borders, it generally followed the River Indus and its tributaries from ...

The former Britons, their post-Roman civilisation having collapsed to a very large extent, had transformed in just two centuries into the Early Welsh, their language changing considerably to reflect ...

The Korean peninsula in East Asia rarely witnessed occupation by a single unified state. Only towards the later centuries of the Silla kingdom of the first millennium AD did a unified kingdom form and ...

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

The equally fierce and hard-fighting Asynjur were the female equivalent of their male Æsir counterparts in Norse mythology, all of whom formed the principle gods of the Norse pantheon.

Bit-Bahiani emerges as an Aramaean territory which is centred on Guzana (Tell Halaf, the Old Testament's Gozana). The modern site of Tell Halaf was, during its existence, later known as Guzana and it ...