Survive the Jive documentary on “Ancient History of Ireland: Newgrange, Celts, Vikings.” “Ireland has a rich and fascinating ancient history; from the great megalithic structures of the Neolithic, like Newgrange, to the spectacular gold jewellery of the Indo-European Bell Beaker folk, the weapon hoards of the Irish Bronze Age, the enigmatic La Tene Celtic art […]
Category Archives: Ancient
The Corded Ware Culture
Dan Davis Author narrates this informative video on the early Indo-European people of the Corded Ware Culture. “The Corded Ware culture existed between c. 3000 BC – c. 2300 BC, spanning the late Neolithic, through the Copper Age, and the early Bronze Age. The name Corded Ware comes from the cord-like impressions on their pottery. […]
Plato Describes Atlantis // First Mention of the Island
Plato presented Atlantis in Critias as an antagonistic rival to his idealistic interpretation of “Ancient Athens.” Therein his intriguing portrait of Atlantis was incredibly detailed. Plato went to great lengths of elucidation describing the history of the island, its geography, and the people who purportedly inhabited the doomed paradise before they met their end beneath […]
Ancient Chinese Historian Describes The Roman Empire
Voices of the Past features the thoughts of an ancient Chinese historian on the Roman Empire: “Here we have the words of the early third century Chinese historian Yu Huan, who lived during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. Though he never left China, he collected large amounts of information on the countries to […]
How Rome Conquered the Ancient Celts
“The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the ancient civilizations and Ancient Celts continue with a video describing how the Celtic world was conquered by Rome across France, Spain, and Anatolia. This video features episodes from the Punic Wars, Caesar’s conquest of Gaul, and the Galatian War.”
Did the Trojan War Really Happen?
Kings and Generals explains “the historicity of the conflict between Trojans and the Greeks depicted in the immortal Iliad of Homer.” Though taken as myth, and likely apt to entail creative license and contrivance, Homer’s Illiad most likely contains a modicum of truth, and the mythology emanated from real events four-hundred years prior to the […]
Origin of the Germanic Tribes.
Kings and Generals explains the origins of the Gothic / Germanic (Deutsche) peoples. Picture above depicts ‘Athanaric and Valens on the Danube River.’