"[T]he eastern Mediterranean region...lies in the midst of the vast desert plateau, which, beginning at the Atlantic, …"

"[T]he past was supreme; the priest who cherished it lived in a realm of shadows, and for the contemporary world he ha…"

"It lies like an army facing south, with one wing stretching along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the othe…"

"Since progress is the rare exception, and not the rule, among the communities of mankind, it is less important to spe…"

"The origins of diplomacy date back at least to the Bronze Age in the Near East. Caches of documents from the Euphrate…"

"Colonel Kyd, an Englishman, had the following to say regarding general surgical skill in the subcontinent: (In) chiru…"

"Dr. H. Scott wrote the following letter on January 12, 1792, again on the subject of Indian surgery: In medicine I sh…"

"Peter James wrote as recently as 2012, ‘scientists and archaeologists are still learning how to apply the radiocarbon…"

"A. R. Burn in the 1930s had doubted the conventional chronology of ancient Greece, also using the Spartan king list, …"

"Of the 3rd millennium BC , Marc van de Mieroop confessed ‘the chronology is confused owing to the Sumerian king list’…"