Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the cradle of the world's ...

Ancient civilizations have always fascinated historians and the public. Because of how different the modern world is ... as ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great ... founded over 70 cities and created an empire that stretched across three ...