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The earliest cities
There is much that the modern town-dweller would recognise in the worlds revealed by excavations of the earliest cities, explains David Barber in the city of the past.
Urban life in the Classical world
The rise and fall of their peoples and states is inextricably linked with the rise and fall of the classical cities.
Urban legacies
As you walk the streets of modern London or Baltimore, you're connected to urban legacies from the ancient cities with every step.
First aid
Trepanation, wound healing and bone setting; poultices of pine, prunes, wine dregs and lizard dung - how far have we come from the origins of medicine?
Greek and Roman medicine
Hippocrates' four humours, Roman hygiene, the first hospitals and home remedies. The second in our articles on ancient medicine describes practices in Greek and Roman medicine.
Ancient cures for modern ills
The pharmaceutical-rich shelves of modern Western chemists and hospitals filled with sophisticated technologies seem far removed from the home remedies and medicines of the past, but are modern medical technologies really so different? Discover today's ancient pharmacists.
Starting to count
Mathematicians could claim theirs really is the oldest profession, suggests Dr Barrow-Green in her survey ancient maths.
The full 360
Perhaps best known for their use of base-60, rediscovered tablets have allowed historians to discover a lot about Babylonian numerals.
Depth on the Nile
Building pyramids and preserving bodies weren't the only marks of their civilisation. There was a unique Egyptian system of counting.
Content last updated: 11/01/2005
