The Neolithic (from Greek; neo, new; lithos, stone) was a period in the human evolution in which there is a take off in the development of improved stone implements beginning about 10,000 B.C. that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. As man began to use more refined stone tools, he learned first [...]

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization which arose on the island of Crete. The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 2700 to 1450 BC; afterwards, Mycenaean Greek culture became dominant on Crete. The term "Minoan" was coined by the British archeologist Sir Arthur Evans after the mythic "king" Minos.    We know of the [...]

Etymology: The name Phoenician, through Latin punicus, comes from Greek phoînix, often suggested as "Tyrian purple, crimson; murex" (from phoinos "blood red"); people who were famous as crimson and purple dyers and whom the Greeks called Phoinikes. As mentioned above, Phoenicia in Latin is ‘Punicus’, therefore, Rome‘s wars with Carthage(a former province of Phoenicia) are [...]

The history of the Jews begins among those people who occupied the area lying between the Nile river on the one side, and the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers on the other. Surrounded by ancient seats of culture in Egypt and Babylonia, by the deserts of Arabia, and by the highlands of Asia Minor, the [...]

Ancient Egypt was a civilization which arose along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. It began around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next three millennia. This ancient civilization [...]

Assyria The Assyrian was a Semitic people that originally inhabited a region straddling the Upper Tigris river, in what is today northern Iraq. They were named after its original capital, the ancient city of Assur. Later, as a nation and empire, they came to control all of the Fertile Crescent, Egypt and much of Anatolia. [...]