Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Oxford. Simon Hornblower Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or...
Joseph Selbie is one of the foremost exponents of the yugas, India’s tradition of cyclical history. The yugas provide context for ancient anomalies, such as Gobekli Tepe, Sanskrit, and the Great Pyramid, as well as for emerging trends, such as the current explosion of interest in experienti...
Ancient Egypt's history has traditionally been divided into 30 (or sometimes 31) dynasties. However, "the'dynasties' of Egypt are really just retrospective constructs,"Michael Dee, an associate professor of isotope chronology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, previously told Liv...
Mark Bradley is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham in the UK. He has published widely on the theme of the senses in antiquity, ancient perception and colour. He is currently working on a project on 'Foul Bodies in Ancient Rome', which sets out to understa...
Domestic dogs are frequently encountered in Indigenous archaeological sites on the Northwest Coast of North America. Although dogs depended on human communities for care and provisioning, archaeologists lack information about the specific foods dogs cons
The unique features of the Tibetan genetic profile have long puzzled researchers, leading to wildly different and often incompatible population history models, ranging from Tibetans representing a sister clade that split from Han Chinese less than 3000 years ago14, to Tibetans branching off from a Ha...
Laboratory experiments were performed at the Ancient DNA clean room facilities of the Institute of Archaeogenomics, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, at the laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, at the Ancient DNA Lab, University of Vienna, a...
Shook BAS. Ancient DNA and the biological history and prehistory of northeastern North America. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Davis; 2005.Shook BAS. 2005. Ancient DNA and the biological history and prehistory of northeastern North America [dissertation]. Davis: University of ...
The two living species of bison (European and American) are among the few terrestrial megafauna to have survived the late Pleistocene extinctions. Despite the extensive bovid fossil record in Eurasia, the evolutionary history of the European bison (or wisent,Bison bonasus) before the Holocene (<11...
To reconstruct the history of ancient Israel, scholars turn to archaeological excavations, the Hebrew Bible and other discovered texts.