Ancient Places and/or Civilizations Story Briefs

The very land we call "ours" once belonged to others. How did ancient people live on that land? What was important to them? Are we more alike than we are different? Explore this collection to find answers.

Theodora was one of the most-influential women of the ancient world. She was a champion of women's rights. She had laws passed which prohibited the tr...

Although we know very little about the Etruscans from historical evidence, we can learn about them from their art.

The Euphrates River forms part of the boundary for the Fertile Cresent in Mesopotamia. It is still an important River flowing through today's Turkey, ...

A pyroclastic surge - a deadly, fast-moving avalanche of searing gas and rock fragments - makes its way toward Herculaneum. People, who think they wil...

The Gedrosian Desert, which presented insurmountable challenges for so many of Alexander the Great's men, still present an inhospitable environment.

A very inhospitable place, the Gedrosian Desert claims the lives of many people (and animals) who travel with Alexander the Great.

Working on their creation, in the Hammond Lab, Jurassic World scientists use the DNA of Giganotosaurus to create Indominus Rex.

From fossilized remains in Argentina, paleontologists have estimated the size and power of a dinosaur called Giganotosaurus.

The Grand Canyon, one of the world's most stunning natural wonders, became an American national monument in 1908.

Thousands of years ago, the Great Library at Alexandria was "the world's first major seat of learning."  Some historians consider it "the birthpl...

Gildas, an ancient chronicler, tells us that after Rome's legions left Britannia, intruders invaded the shores of the country we now know as Britain.

Halicarnassus, home of Herodotus the historian, was also the site of a famous marble mausoleum - one of seven wonders of the ancient world.

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