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builders were not foreigners or slaves, but Egyptians who lived in villages constructed specifically for this workforce ("Introduc...

fool has a wondrous capability of truly providing many different elements of human nature to the audience. They can be ridiculous ...

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

importantly, perhaps, the Code described what punishment would be used against someone who violated these laws: "The old saying an...

His leadership alliances undoubtedly contributed to Romes preeminent world status, but at a price. His autocratic rule encouraged...

of the people. Being that storytelling was the way to pass along religion, this influenced the sculptures of the people and in tur...

to punishment after death: Budge (1905) comments that many later religions derived their concept of a fiery, demonic hell from the...

This gravestone was produced in marble and dates from the between 450 and 440 BC. While the little girls face is both composed and...

his victories against large predators to his faith in God. Scholarship points out that many features of this narrative relate to...

the centuries has seen a rather constant existence, with Buddhism establishing itself as a primary staple of belief and stimulatin...

Is not (even the core of) the brick structure made of kiln-fired brick, and did not the Seven Sages themselves lay out its plans? ...

China. This includes what they are and how they are used as well as the types of guanxis that exist. The paper also discusses guan...

woman who had just inserted a foul-smelling crocodile dung suppository. Other adventurous women seeking to avoid pregnancy in anc...

of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...

This 4 page paper discusses David Northrup’s idea that history should be considered as comprising two periods, before and after ...

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

(Egyptian Temples, part I: Divine Kingship, 2007). "[I]t was vital and necessary to keep the gods satisfied and wanting to stay in...

Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....

these rulers. The huge labor force that was required to construct a pyramid was supervised by one man, the "overseer of all the k...

and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

quest for the Holy Grail that were considered by filmmaker Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese in the 1991 movie Th...

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

c. 1386-1321 BCE (Lorenz). Akhenaten is renowned for the religious revolution he initiated during this reign, which attempted t...

that Thucydides, along with several other original historians "simply transferred what was passing in the world around them, to th...

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...

fact that he was "the first king in history to sign a peace treaty with his enemies, the Hittites, ending long years of wars and h...

Tigris and Euphrates are very different: the former is "rough and fast flowing" and difficult to navigate while the Euphrates can ...

a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...