The popular conception of the Romans, mainly fostered by movies and television, extends to their all-conquering dominance, their armies, gladiators, blood and gore, sex and violence, mad emperors, everything that titillates the imagination in fact
The fall of the Third Dynasty of Ur at end of the third millennium echoed over the land of Sumer, between the Tigris and Euphrates in ancient southern Mesopotamia and it opened the landscape for the southern rival city states of Isin and Larsa (1924 – 1763 BC) to rise.
Parke Godwin, in his richly textured novel, The Last Rainbow, spins an engaging story around an idea that in its very simplicity goes a long way toward connecting a whole host of legends and myths associated with the misty history of the British Isles.
Since ancient times, wills and inheritance have a long, recorded history and Britain is no different. A history of a thousand years of the wills of women offer a rare but rich glimpse into their often otherwise secluded and unreported lives.
Ancient Sumerian mythology tells that Eridu, considered one of the most southern of the settlements close to the Persian Gulf, was inhabited before the flood when, according to the Sumerian King list: “When kingship from heaven was lowered, the kingship was in Eridu, In Eridug
Rome was the very essence of a male dominated society, being militaristic, proud, go-getting and determined on expansion.
