Collections
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Cuneiform — The First Writing
It began as accounting. Someone in Uruk around 3400 BCE needed to...
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Cyrus the Great — King of Kings
He conquered Babylon without a battle — the population opened the gates...
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Dido — Queen of Carthage
When she fled Tyre with a small band of followers after her...
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East Asian Heritage
East Asia gave the world gunpowder, paper, silk, and some of the...
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Egungun — The Ancestral Masquerade
When the Egungun masquerade appears, the ancestors walk among the living. Dressed...
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Enlil — Lord of Wind and Storm
He was the most powerful god in the Sumerian pantheon — more...
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Ethiopia
The land of the Lion of Judah — ancient kings, rock-hewn churches,...
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European Heritage
From the Norse longships of Scandinavia to the marble temples of Greece,...
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Ganesha — Remover of Obstacles
No prayer in the Hindu tradition begins without first addressing Ganesha —...
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Genghis Khan — World Conqueror
He was born clutching a blood clot in his fist, which the...
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Gilgamesh of Uruk — The First King
The walls of Uruk were his greatest achievement — he built them...
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Gilgamesh — The First Hero
He was two-thirds god and one-third human. He ruled the city of...
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Great Zimbabwe
A mortarless stone metropolis raised by African hands — so magnificent that...
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Hausa
Seven walled city-states of indigo, leather, and trade — and the warrior...
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Horus — The Sky God
His right eye was the sun. His left eye was the moon....
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Huitzilopochtli — God of Sun and War
Every morning, Huitzilopochtli fought the forces of darkness to bring the sun...
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Igbo
A people who needed no king — masters of bronze, builders of...
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Ilé-Ifè — The Sacred City of Origin
In the beginning, Oduduwa descended from the heavens on an iron chain,...
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Inanna — Queen of Heaven and Earth
She descended into the underworld through seven gates, surrendering a garment and...
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Indian Vedic
The Vedic ancestors of India gave the world its first written philosophy,...
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Indigenous Americas Heritage
Before Europe arrived, the Americas were home to civilizations of breathtaking complexity....
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Inkosi — The Zulu Chieftaincy
The Inkosi is not merely a chief. In Zulu political philosophy, the...
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Inti — The Sun God of the Inca
The Sapa Inca — the supreme ruler of Tawantinsuyu — was not...
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Isandlwana — The Day the Sun Went Dark
On January 22, 1879, during a solar eclipse that turned the afternoon...
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Ishtar — Goddess of Love and War
She descended into the underworld to rescue her lover Tammuz, passing through...
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Isis — The Great Mother
She reassembled her murdered husband Osiris piece by piece from across the...
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Jupiter — King of the Roman Gods
The Romans took Zeus and made him larger. Jupiter Optimus Maximus —...