Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement ... She would be wearing a tunica recta — a white woven tunic — belted with an elaborate "Knot of Hercules.” ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

The Tunica Tribe became the middleman for much of the Caddo Tribe’s salt trade in the lower Mississippi River Valley. Natives also used salt to barter with French settlers. If you’re ...

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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Amulet inlay: figure of Anubis Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Inlay of mummy figure with human head Freer Gallery of Art and ...