Stratford Seventh-Day Adventist Church is on the southern side of Janson Road, about halfway down from the junction with ...

Moghul emperor Aurangzeb deputes Jai Singh of Amer to tackle Shivaji. Shivaji is no match for Jai Singh's mammoth army, and he is forced to sign the Treaty of Purandar. Humiliated and imprisoned by ...

The Medes, or Medians, were a collection of Indo-Iranian tribes which entered the area of the northern Zagros Mountains from the start of the first millennium BC, during the period of instability and ...

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

Sub-Roman Britannia underwent rapid change in the course of fifty years between AD 550-600. At the start of this period, the Angle and Saxon kingdoms on the east and south coasts were firmly ...

The Cucuteni-Tripolye culture flourished between about 5200-3000 BC. At its apogee between about 4000-3500 BC, its people had ...

The Levant between about 10,000-3000 BC was the centre of the Neolithic Farmer revolution in the Near East. The process of domesticating wild crops was a gradual one, taking place during the ...

The 'Three Kingdoms' period of Chinese history was triggered by a mixture of factors. Not least of these was increasing levels of control by the imperial court's eunuchs, but Late Han China was in ...

Evidence for what took place in the region that forms the modern (and ancient) county of Surrey is thin on the ground. A certain amount can be inferred, and a certain amount understood through ...

Starting out as one of the world's oldest inhabited settlements in the eleventh millennium BC, Alep (modern Aleppo) has been continuously inhabited since around 5000 BC. Strategically located on the ...

The ancient region of the Indus lay on the eastern side of the Hindu Kush mountains. Although rarely defined with any specific borders, it generally followed the River Indus and its tributaries from ...