Where it is from: The kingdom of Lydia (modern western Turkey) When it was made: Circa 560 to 547 B.C. Related: Ancient Egyptian 'granary with scribes' diorama: A miniature workplace found buried in a ...

Your passion for antiquity turns adventurous when you’re miraculously transported to the fantastical Kingdom of Lydia—where you’re hailed as the Phoenix! Your prophesied destiny unites you with four ...

The average person may not be able to point out Anatolia on a map, but if you know where modern-day Turkey is, you have a good idea of where it once was. Bordered on three sides by the Black, Aegean, ...

THE nomadic Turks swept in from the open steppes in the 11th century and settled themselves in Asia Minor on the ruins of half a dozen cosmopolitan civilizations. Here, before the Turkish conquerors ...

Volume 1. From the beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the dynasty of Akkad -- Volume 2. From the End of the Third Millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon -- Volume 3. From the Hyksos to the Late Second ...