Ancient Egypt
Marriage in Ancient Egypt
Getting married in Ancient Egypt (and also in the other ancient civilizations) was an important business because the family was the most valuable institution...
Church in the Middle Ages
Cathars or Albigensians in Middle Ages
The term Cathars comes from Greek word katharoi which means the pure ones. Cathars were also usually known as Albigensians because the city Albi in southern...
Medieval Germany
Lombards (5-7th century)
The Lombards or Langobards were an Eastern Germanic tribe. Their presence was in southern Scandinavia. In the 1st century AD they were mentioned as...
Middle Ages
Medieval Gardens
Gardens played important role in the Middle Ages. Although plantations of the gardens have taken place much earlier, many sources suggest that garden culture...
Ancient Greece
Delphic Oracle and priestess Pythia
The Oracle of Delphi was a Greek center of shrine and predictions in Phocis (Central Greece) under the Mount Parnassus. For nearly a thousand years,...
Islamic world
Moors in Spain (VIII-XI century)
The term "Moors" refers primarily to Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb (arabian  al-Maɣréb and on Berber language Tamazɣa or Tamazgh). Although Moors and Berbers are often synonym...
Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra (51-30 BC) last Egyptian pharaoh
Hardly a ancient woman can fascinate as much as the Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra VII (born 69 BC) or queen of Ptolemaic Kingdom (founded in...