Ancient History: to c 500 CE

In many ways, Roman attitudes to animals were similar to our own; they kept animals as household pets, they farmed animals for meat and hunted and ...

Phlegon of Tralles, a learned freedman of Hadrians, was a prolific writer, but only two of his works have though not entirely survived: Peri thau...

The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Bri...