"Because history is not" exact science "- it is a humanistic discipline. Its main subject is people, and, as Thucydides said a long time ago, history is not about studying circumstances, but about people in circumstances. Anyone who forgets that because he is in love with his own special area of interest or is fascinated by the model-building activities and ideal types of behaviourists can only be described as simple-minded.”

- Gordon A. Craig, 1981 in Münster / Westphalia

Aulus Cornelius Celsus - Roman Doctor?

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Aulus Cornelius Celsus - Roman Doctor

Aulus Cornelius Celsus - Always people tried to work in the field of medical treatment to help others when injured or helpless. Some big steps could be done in Greek and Roman period because of development in research and for the first time experiences were written down.

Coinage - History of the Means of Payment "Coin"

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Coinage - History of the Means of Payment

Coinage - During our travels through the ancient cities and the associated visits to museums in the various regions of Asia Minor, we often encountered coin collections in the exhibitions that were already used as a means of payment in antiquity.

Pamphylia – from Attaleia to Side

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Pamphylia – from Attaleia to Side

Pamphylia was an ancient region on the central southern coast of Asia Minor, roughly situated between the modern cities of Antalya and Mersin, bordered by the Taurus Mountains in present-day Turkey.

Pisidia - Pamphylia and Lycia to the south

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Pisidia

Pisidia – The name Pisidia also referred in antiquity to a region in Asia Minor, geographically stretching from the coastal plain near Antalya in the south to the lakes near present-day Burdur, after crossing the Taurus Mountains.

Limes – A Border on the Edge of the Empire

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Limes – A Border on the Edge of the Empire

Limes – Rome's Border with the Barbarians – A companion book to the permanent exhibition at the Limes Museum in Aalen. Published by the Württemberg State Museum Stuttgart. With 342 illustrations, mostly in colour.

Artemisia - Ruler of Ancient Halicarnassus

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Artemisia - Ruler of Ancient Halicarnassus

Artemisia was a daughter of Lygdamis. Around 480 BC, she ruled Halicarnassus, the modern-day Bodrum, as guardian of her son Pisindelis. She was subject to the suzerainty of the Persian King Xerxes I.

Turkiye - Prehistory and Antiquity of Asia Minor

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Turkiye - Prehistory and Antiquity of Asia Minor

Large parts of what is now Turkey were already settled in the Paleolithic period, so the Neolithic period began quite early, particularly in the east of what is now Turkey.

Water supply in the Roman Empire

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Water supply in the Roman Empire

The quality of execution in the Roman Empire is absolutely comparable to the technology of road construction and in some cases very cleverly combined with road construction is the construction of the water supply systems in the cities of the empire.

The tribal organization of the Celts in Asia Minor

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The tribal organization of the Celts in Asia Minor

In our article about the origin of the Celtic immigrants to Asia Minor, we had already roughly written about the local division of the tribes. Basically, the ethnic group of the Celts who immigrated to Asia Minor is also referred to as Galatians.

Technical development in the major cities of the Romans

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Technical development in the major cities of the Romans

The supply of the larger cities of the Roman Empire - Rome already had 800,000 inhabitants in the first century AD - could only be ensured through structural adjustment of the surrounding rural regions, in the course of which rural estates close to the city or on trade routes began to meet the growing demand through market-oriented forms of production.

Potnia Theron - the controller of the wild

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Potnia Theron - the controller of the wild

In ancient times, Potnia Theron - the ruler of the wild, was considered a female deity who, as the mistress of wild animals, was responsible for protecting them.

Ziyaret Tepe - Assyrians did not rely on Scripture alone

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Ziyaret Tepe - Assyrians did not rely on Scripture alone

"The invention of recording systems is a milestone in human history. Any find that can help shed light on these milestones is therefore an important tool in understanding the progress of mankind," says researcher John MacGinnis in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2014. What is the background of this sentence?

Alexander the Great - Conquerer from Pella

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Alexander the Great

During our travels and visits of ancient cities there was always one name mentioned: Alexander the Great. Everybody learned about Alexander during history lesson at school for being the leader of one of the biggest empires ever.

Apollonios of Perge - Master of Mathematics

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Apollonios of Perge

It was Apollonius who gave the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola the names by which we know them. The hypothesis of eccentric orbits, or equivalently, deferent and epicycles, to explain the apparent motion of the planets and the varying speed of the Moon, are also attributed to him.

Herodotus - Greek Historian from Halicarnassus

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Herodotus - Greek Historian

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian  who lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC). He was born in Caria, Halicarnassus ( Modern day Bodrum, Muğla, Türkiye). He is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture.

Hesiod - Greek Oral Poet and Mythologist

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Hesiod - Greek Oral Poet

Hesiod (Hesíodos) was a Greek oral poet and is often identified as the first economist. His date is uncertain, but leading scholars favour the eighth century BC for when Hesiod lived.

Homer - Ilias - ancient historical poet

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Homer - Ilias

The ancient Greeks generally believed that Homer was an historical individual, but modern scholars are skeptical: no reliable biographical information has been handed down from classical antiquity, and the poems themselves manifestly represent the culmination of many centuries of oral story-telling and a well-developed "formulaic" system of poetic composition.

Strabo - Greek Historian and Geographer

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Strabo - Greek Historian and Geographer

Strabo was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. Strabo was born to an affluent family from Amaseia in Pontus (modern Amasya, Turkey), a city which he said to be situated the approximate equivalent of 75 km from the Black sea. 

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