Sasha Trubetskoy, an undergrad at U. Chicago, has created a “subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD.” Drawing on Stanford’s ORBIS model, The Pelagios Project, and the Antonine Itinerary, Trubetskoy’s map combines well-known historic roads, like the Via

Insurance – Historical development of insurance: Insurance in some form is as old as historical society. So-called bottomry contracts were known to merchants of Babylon as early as 4000–3000 bce. Bottomry was also practiced by the Hindus in 600 bce and was well understood in ancient Greece as early as the 4th century bce. Under a …

The following is an incomplete list of notable individuals who converted to Catholicism from a different religion or no religion

Biblical literature – Types of biblical hermeneutics: As has been said, the importance of biblical hermeneutics has lain in the Bible’s status as a sacred book in Judaism and Christianity, recording a divine revelation or reproducing divine oracles. The “oracles” are primarily prophetic utterances, but often their narrative setting has also come to …

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The Salvation War is a Web Original trilogy that premiered online in the beginning of 2008, asking a simple question: what if God announced that everyone’s …

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American Gods (2001) is a novel by English author Neil Gaiman.The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shadow.Several of the themes were previously alluded to in his The Sandman comic book series.. The book was published in 2001 by Headline …

A time line from before writing began to the present, linked to Andrew Roberts’ book Social Science History and to other resources.