Consular jurisdiction;Judiciary;Legal exemptions;Middle East, Eastern Asia;The Pacific;Treaty revision Definition Extraterritoriality under Treaty: Antiquity to the twentieth century examines the history of the application of the concept of extraterritorial law to foreign communities. Such foreigners were exemp...
Red Sea tradeIndian Ocean tradeLate AntiquitySeveral thousand glass beads excavated in the Maryam Anza (Tigray, Ethiopia) cemetery over three seasons between 2014 and 2016 tell the story of the direct or indirect long-distance contacts of the people buried there. By combining typological and ...
In The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians, distinguished historian J.B. Bury offers a narrative account of the deluge of barbarian invasions, and mass migrations which afflicted the Roman Empire in the fifth century AD. He also chronicles the early evolution of the barbarian kingdoms in ...
By the 1st century BC Palmyra was one of the main links in the trade between Persia and the Roman Empire. Palmyra controlled the silk trade with India, the city had its own fleet in the Mediterranean and was one of the richest cities in the ancient world. At this time Palmyra was seen...
: 557-61. 冯盈 Michael Dietler and Michel Py, The Warrior of Lattes: an Iron Age statue disco