This object, now in a musuem in Harare, Zumabwe, dates from 1300. Purely indigenous drum? Replica of the Ark of the Covenant? The ways we attach meaning to ancient objects tells us far more about the present than about the past.
Diogenes followed the Ancient Greek philosophy Cynicism (meaning rejection of conventional materialism and a desire for extreme simplicity and authentic living). He was said to…
Sometimes the distant past seems exotic and remote, and sometimes it feels like today’s news headlines. The Ancient Greek myth of the prophetess Cassandra brings…
One of the earliest documented prisons is also among the grimmest in history. This is the Tullianum of Ancient Rome, today called the Mamertime prison.…