Historical Figures Archive

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Thomas Jefferson once said – “The greatest service which can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - During the Renaissance, many became interested in magic and mysticism. Science was in its early stage and curious minds sought answers to big questions

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Two Vietnamese sisters - Trung Trac and Trung Nhi – are widely known in Vietnam as Hai Ba Trung (literally: ‘Two Ladies Trung’). These

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Female Pharaoh Twosret, one of the few women to rule Egypt was used and exploited. Those who had more power used her as a

David Tee - AncientPages.com  - Isabel Neville's life was not a long one. She lived between September 1451 and December 1476. Yet, in between those dates, she lived

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - Herodotus, a Greek historian from the 5th century BC, wrote about Cyrus the Great as a tolerant, perfect monarch. In the Bible's Isaiah

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Historical records confirm that the greatest military campaigns of conquest were often accomplished by the robust nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples inhabiting Central Asia. Their

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In 1492, the Catholic Monarchs Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon succeeded in taking control of the Iberian Peninsula, and capture

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A number of rulers in ancient Egypt were named in honor of Sobek, an important ancient Egyptian deity of the 12th Dynasty, who was

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Traditionally counted, there were seven kings of Rome. However, it is difficult to attribute their deeds to a respective ruler, because ancient records were

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In ancient Greece, women had limited rights, and they were considered less valuable than men. Greek Queen Artemisia I of Caria was luckier

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Murder, greed, lust for power, political intrigue, scandals, incest, and corruption are the reasons why the House of Borgia easily became the most

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Little known today, Hiawatha was a remarkable Native American leader who is remembered for bringing several tribes together into the Iroquois Confederacy. Together

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Many have heard about Pocahontas, but her story is not as presented in the animated movie Walt Disney Pictures released in 1995. Pocahontas was

David Tee - AncientPages.com - Genghis Khan is a title, not a name. Genghis Khan was born with the name "Temujin." The name means "blacksmith" or "one who

David Tee - AncientPages.com - Catherine of Valois learned her behavior from her mother. It did not help, and it did not really hurt Catherine of Valois (1401 -

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - She was blind in one eye. but it didn’t stop her from gathering an army and attacking Roman Egypt. The conflict between her kingdom

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Hiram Abiff is, according to the Freemasons’ legend, the master and chief architect at the building of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. No doubt,

David Tee - AncientPages.com - History is not often kind. While some historical figures, like the Tudors, the Yorks, and Lancasters, have extensive information about them that survives

David Tee - AncientPages.com - You may have heard of his son, Nebuchadnezzar II, more than you heard of Nabopolassar but the latter originated the Neo-Babylonian empire when the

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In the 4th century BC, two great individualities of the contemporary world met: Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) and Aristotle of Stagira (384–322