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.

Halloween has its roots in the Celtic people and their festival of Samhain (pronounced SAU-an). How do the scary parts of the holiday line-up with its...

The “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” are known as one of the “Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.”No one really knows where the Ha...

Hera was the wife of Zeus, therefore queen of the gods of ancient Greece, according to Greek mythology.

The legend of Hercules.

It's the Ides of March, and Julius Caesar receives a warning from the shadows. See an animated version of Shakespeare's famous play.

In 1954, a group of climbers on Chile's El Plomo Mountain found the mummy of a young Inca boy.

Dr. Johan Reinhard and his team found two mummies near the summit of Ampato (at an elevation of 19,200 feet).

Julius Caesar sails to Britain from France, in 55 BC, and is initially met with men who are willing to fight against Caesar and his troops. Caesar lea...

This 19th-century illustration, called Caesar Crossing the Rubicon, is an artistic rendering of Julius Caesar's famous decision to defy Roman law.

Although not everyone agrees, some paleontologists believe thatArchaeopteryx lithographicais the earliest-known bird which has been discovered anywher...

According to Herodotus, coins were first minted in the ancient Kingdom of Lydia (located in today's Western Turkey).

Tutankhamun was married to Ankhesenamun. She is shrouded in mystery after the unexpected death of her young husband.

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