Herodotus

14 09, 2017

Who were the Scythians? Central Asian history

By |2019-09-05T05:39:15-07:00September 14th, 2017|Central Asia|Comments Off on Who were the Scythians? Central Asian history

Scythian history: A Scythian milking a sheep (Tolstaja Mogila kurgan, Ukraine, 400 BC) Scythians lived in Central Asia The Scythians were a large group of loosely connected people who lived in [...]

3 09, 2017

Who were the Etruscans? History of Italy

By |2018-10-02T12:06:39-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History, Romans|Comments Off on Who were the Etruscans? History of Italy

Etruscan tomb sculpture: the Etruscans liked fancy tombs From Villanovans to Etruscans Around 700 BC, the Bronze Age people we call the Villanovans started to get ideas from the Greeks and Phoenicians who were sailing around the [...]

25 07, 2017

Medieval Islamic historians

By |2018-04-09T10:31:10-07:00July 25th, 2017|History, Islam, Literature|Comments Off on Medieval Islamic historians

A page from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, from Herat, Afghanistan, about 1444 AD. Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Islamic historians began by translating Greek historians like Herodotus and Thucydides into Arabic. But soon historians wrote in [...]

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