Voltaire once said that “An Essay on Man” is “the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language” (later however, he renounced his admiration for it). Rousseau rhapsodized about its intellectual consolations. Kant recited long...
An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth draws on archaeological evidence and oral traditions to reveal how prehistoric humans perceived the skies and celestial phenomena. With over 200 entries, it offers a number of ways to approach ancient...
Indus civilization
Phoenicia
Aegean civilizations
Ancient Italic people
pre-Columbian civilizations
ancient Middle East
Ancient Iran
History of Arabia
History of Central Asia
History of Southeast Asia
History of Latin...