The past few decades has seen a raging ideological debate and controversies on whether humans migrated to the new world from Europe in early pre-historic times. The proponents primarily set their basis on the Solutrean hypothesis that was proposed in the year 1998. The theory claims that the earliest American...

Egypt is one of the renowned ancient historical states across the entire globe. It is often regarded as a “gift of the Nile” since the predictable floods along river Nile dumped new fertile soil that boosted farming. The governing kingdoms emerged between 4000 and 3300 BC due to the availability...

Life SummaryKing David is an important historical figure. King David was born in the year 907 B.C. and he eventually reigns as the king of Israel for nearly 40 years. He lived to be an old man, passing away at the age of 70, in the year, 837 B.C. David...

To explain why I would like to have been a part of ancient Egyptian civilization, I must first recognize that “ancient civilization” in this case translates to thousands of years and a wide range of cultures. Dynasty after dynasty ruled Egypt and, while certain cultural realities remained largely in place,...

Globalization theories are a great help in interpreting the material culture represented by the Fayum portraits of first and second century Egypt. Rome integrated the cultures of the people it conquered into its own culture. This was a successful praxis for this world dominating civilization (Elsner 1998). In Fayum we...