The production of iron began some time in the second millenium BCE in western to central Asia. Its precise history is not clear, but the mos...

For now truly is a race of iron, and men never rest from labour and sorrow by day, and from perishing by night; and the gods shall lay sore...

Out in the wine-dark sea there is a rich and lovely island called Crete. – Homer, Book XIX of The Odyssey Archaeologists believe the fir...

The enormous social changes of early civilisation influenced women’s role in art. It isn’t always possible to distinguish between women an...

Myth was described by Herbert Jennings Rose as ‘the result of the working of a naive imagination upon the facts of experience’ [1]. This app...