Ancient World
Megasthenes and the Indica: A Greek Envoy in Mauryan India
Megasthenes' Indica became the main source of Greek and Roman knowledge about India for centuries.
All Articles
Every Chronicle article on world history, newest first: battles, empires, disasters, discoveries and revolutions.
Ancient World
Battle of Zama (202 BC): Scipio Africanus Defeats Hannibal
Decisive Roman victory; Carthage accepted peace in 201 BC, surrendering its fleet, elephants and independence in foreign policy.
Ancient World
Pythagoras and His School at Croton (c. 530 BC)
Pythagoras' community became a powerful religious and political brotherhood in Magna Graecia and gave rise to a philosophical tradition that linked mathematics, music and the soul.
Ancient World
Book of the Dead: Ancient Egyptian Spells for the Afterlife
The standard collection of funerary texts in Egypt for some 1,500 years, giving the best-known picture of Egyptian beliefs about judgement and the afterlife.
Ancient World
Battle of Qarqar (853 BC): Shalmaneser III Against a Coalition
Shalmaneser III claimed victory, but the coalition held and Assyria did not advance further south for years.
Prehistory
Valdivia Culture: Early Pottery and Villages of Ancient Ecuador
Valdivia became one of the earliest known settled, pottery-making societies of the Americas, laying foundations for later Ecuadorian cultures such as Machalilla and Chorrera.
Prehistory
Rudna Glava: Europe's Oldest Known Copper Mine in Serbia
Prehistoric miners dug dozens of shafts to extract copper minerals, leaving one of the earliest known mines in Europe and the world.
Prehistory
Côa Valley Rock Art: Portugal's Open-Air Ice Age Engravings
A planned dam was abandoned in 1995, the Côa Valley Archaeological Park was created in 1996, and the site joined the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998.
Prehistory
Skhul and Qafzeh: Early Modern Humans in the Levant
The burials showed that Homo sapiens lived in south-west Asia long before Europe, during an early dispersal from Africa that did not lead to lasting settlement.
Prehistory
Dinosaur National Monument: Earl Douglass and the Carnegie Quarry
Douglass's quarry yielded thousands of Jurassic dinosaur bones, and the site became Dinosaur National Monument in 1915, famed for its exposed wall of bones.
Prehistory
Ediacaran Biota: Earth's First Large Complex Organisms
The first assemblages of large, multicellular organisms appeared in the oceans, including some of the earliest animals, before most forms vanished near the start of the Cambrian.
Modern Era
Tri-State Tornado (1925): The Deadliest Tornado in US History
The tornado killed 695 people and injured more than 2,000 along a track of about 219 miles (352 km), the deadliest tornado in US history.