St John the Evangelist, Broadclyst, sits towards the north-west of the Church Lane and Church Close side roads, at the north-west corner of the village. It is notable for its tower of the 1500s which ...

The former St Andrew Marsh Green was (and still is) located on the south side of the main lane in this small village, with the war memorial on its western flank. It is shown here half hidden by the ...

Gambling is a popular leisure activity in many countries. In the modern world, a vast amount of entertainment is available: original and modernized versions of various games. However, their history ...

The city of Girsu survives today as the archaeological mound of Telloh or Tello. It was located approximately twenty-five kilometres to the north-west of Lagash, but it also lies close to the modern ...

The concept of a preserved river valley park was first presented to the city of Edmonton, Alberta, in 1907 by landscape architect Frederick Gage Todd. Prior to that the river valley had been developed ...

The Gutians (Guti, or sometimes Quti) were one of a number of people who formed the population of ancient Mesopotamia. They occupied the central Zagros Mountain range from the last few centuries of ...

It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

This general map of Mesopotamia and its neighbouring territories roughly covers the period between 2000-1600 BC. It reveals the concentration of city states in Sumer, in the south. This is where the ...

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

The sultanate of Rum was established after 1071 in territory in southern-central Anatolia (Asia Minor), formerly a Near East possession of the Eastern Roman empire. Alternatively known as Iconium (the ...