Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Did you mean...?

An illustration of seven noted physicians and botanists from ancient Greece in the Vienna Dioscurides(aka the Juliana Anicia Codex), a 6th Century CE Byzantine manuscript of De Materia Medica by Dioscurides (c. 40 - 90 CE). The illustration...

A 13th century CE illustration of a knight about to battle the Seven Deadly Sins. From the Summa Vitiorum or "Treatise on the Vices" by William Peraldus.

These weights are in the range of 8.7 to 24.7 grams, roughly between 1 and 3 Babylonian shekels. Weights had been made in this characteristic duck-shape since around 2000 BCE. From Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Circa 700-500 BCE. (The British...

Let's retrace on an animated map a summary of the Seven Years' War, often called World War Zero.

A belief in an afterlife was central to every major civilization of the ancient world and this encouraged the recognition of the reality of ghosts as the spirits of the departed who, for one reason or another, either returned from the realm...

Religion (from the Latin Religio, meaning 'restraint,' or Relegere, according to Cicero, meaning 'to repeat, to read again,' or, most likely, Religionem, 'to show respect for what is sacred') is an organized system of beliefs and practices...

Hello and welcome to Feature History, featuring the Seven Years' War, an overdue video, and the reason you don't record after just waking up. The credit for this video goes to Feature History's employee of the month, me, for the art...

A coin from the reign of Hadrian depicting the staute of Zeus at Olympia, on of the Seven Wonders of the World. 117-138 CE. (National Archaeological Museum, Florence)

Dive into the Egyptian myth of Isis, a powerful goddess protecting her son from her murderous brother with the help of seven scorpions. — A woman in rags emerged from a swamp flanked by seven giant scorpions and approached a magnificent...

The wearing of cosmetics and perfumes by both men and women goes back a very long way indeed as the ancients were just as keen as anyone to improve their appearance as quickly and as easily as possible using all manner of powders, creams...