A complete parsing reader for the classical canon. Click any word in any text for its lemma, morphology, and full dictionary entry — Lewis & Short for Latin, Liddell-Scott-Jones for Greek. 1060 works · 293 Latin · 767 Greek · … Read more
By Jesús Maturana Published on 02/07/2026 – 8:55 GMT+2•Updated 04/07/2026 – 10:17 GMT+2 A Dutch engineer has reconstructed, with the help of academic sources and ancient cartography, the road map that linked up the Roman Empire. The result, accessible from any … Read more
A clay tablet from Kanesh, in what is now central Turkey, contains the founding charter of a twelve-partner trading company. Twelve merchants pooled thirty-three pounds of gold. The document specifies the partners by name, the starting capital, the profit split, … Read more
Eiko Ojala Early writing is a tale of two scripts. Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mesopotamian cuneiform both emerged independently about 5300 years ago. The political powers of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia flourished in the centuries to come, partly because writing helped … Read more
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Ju ci (锔瓷), the Chinese craft of repairing broken porcelain has roots dating back to the Song dynasty (960-1279), with illustrations of craftsmen mending pots appearing in Chinese paintings as early as the 13th century. Ju ci is now recognized … Read more
Alamy We will probably never know the specific beliefs and rituals that inspired Maeshowe tomb. But it’s nonetheless possible to understand the enormous significance of the winter solstice as the “year’s midnight”, both as the darkest moment in the calendar … Read more
The contents of this repository allow older versions of UNIX (ancient UNIX) to run easily on modern Unix-like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, among others). At this time, you can run the following versions of UNIX: License, Credits and Copyright First … Read more
The art of the ancient mirror One of the things that’s hard for modern people to process is the sheer investment of time that everyday objects represented in the ancient world. We live in a world where we can just … Read more
Abstract Although it is one of the most arid regions today, the Sahara Desert was a green savannah during the African Humid Period (AHP) between 14,500 and 5,000 years before present, with water bodies promoting human occupation and the spread of … Read more