Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – One would think respecting the remains of the dead should be self-evident, but it is not always so. Relief from the West wall of a chapel of Ramesses I at Abydos, Egypt. Credit: Gift of
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Serving as Pharaoh in ancient Egypt was both prestigious and perilous. At the end of his reign, Pharaoh Apries lost the support of both the gods and his people. Betrayed, he was forced to flee
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – In the Old Testament, Ashurbanipal is mentioned in the Book of Ezra, 4:10 – “and the other people whom the great and honorable Ashurbanipal deported and settled in the city of Samaria and elsewhere in
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Greatly overshadowed by his son, Ramesses II, today hailed as the greatest Pharaoh of all time, Seti I did more for ancient Egypt than most realize. Pharaoh Seti I reigned for only ten or possibly fifteen
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Compassion is not an emotion most associate with ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, who could be fearless, harsh, and ruthless rulers. History judges Pharaohs by looking back at their successes and failures. Still, one tends to forget
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Shortly before Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici died, he told his son Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici never to go against the will of the people. It is advice Cosimo followed all his life, and
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – By modern definition, a tyrant is a cruel and oppressive ruler hated by most people. Peisistratos was a tyrant, but this doesn’t mean he was a bad ruler and was certainly not despised by the
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Few have heard his name, but to the people living in a small village in Kyrgyzstan, he was an extraordinary man and hero. Kaba Uluu Kojomkul, whose name means Koschomkul, son of Kaba, was a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Louis Le Prince vanished under mysterious circumstances, but did he willingly decide to hide from the outside world, or was he murdered? Le Prince was poor and had debts, so he had reasons to disappear,
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Erik the Red was a famous Viking today remembered for colonizing Greenland and being the father of the great Viking explorer Leif Erikson. Erik the Red’s life was full of difficulties. He was a very controversial Viking. He
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – We associate all these names – Ragnar Lodbrok, Ivar the Boneless, Bjorn Ironside, Erik the Red, Eric “Bloodaxe” Haraldsson – with courageous and fearsome Viking warriors. However, none of them can be compared to the
David Tee – AncientPages.com – History has a way of hiding the truth and letting myths and legends ascend to prominence. Very little credible information about Anne Neville’s survival. What does survive are a lot of tall tales, myths, and legends
Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – In the Valley of the Queens, there is an enormous and spectacular ancient tomb that belongs to Queen Nefertari (1290–1224 BC). Nefertari Meritmut, whose name means ‘beautiful companion,’ was the first of the Great Royal Wives
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The oldest story about Dido was written by Timaeus, an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 3rd century BC. Dido’s original name, ‘Elissa’, is related to El, the remote Phoenician creator god. From the earliest
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – Caesarion was murdered on August 23, 30 B.C., at the age of only 17 years old. He was the last King of the Egyptian Ptolemies, most probably the son of Julius Caesar, and his mother
A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – One autumn morning in 1578, the watchmen scanned the Pacific Ocean from the top of the fortifications of the central city and seaport of Valparaíso. They saw warships appear in the distance. It wasn’t difficult
