A description of many aspects of Etruscan life: religion, engineering, clothing, territory.

Kids learn about the food, jobs, and daily Life of the Ancient Romans. What food they ate, the clothes they wore, and the jobs they worked.

Created for the high school student who is taking classes in European history.

Read about the history of Spain including other groups that lived there in the past, the Golden Age, the reign of Napoleon, the Spanish Civil War, and the establishment of democracy. Also looks at the makeup of the Spanish population,...

Focuses on the history of costumes and fashion from Egyptian times to the 1990s. Thumbnail links may no longer work as this is an older site. However, the 'Fads in Fashion Slides' page has many large images organized by time periods....

Read a detailed description of the clothing, hairstyles, and make-up Cleopatra would have used.

Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Mexican Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)

The palla, as well as the pallium and palliolum, was always a rectangular piece of cloth, exactly, or, at least, nearly square. It was, indeed, used in the very form in which it was taken from the loom, being made entirely by the weaver....

Sacrifices being of the nature of feasts, the Greeks and Romans, on occasion of extraordinary solemnities, placed images of the gods reclining on couches, with tables and viands before them, as if they were really partaking of the things...

A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...

A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...

A robe worn by the Medes and Persians over their trowsers and other garments. It had wide sleeves, and was made of woollen cloth, which was either purple or of some other splendid colour. In the Persepolitan sculptres, from which the...

An outer garment. The English cloak, though commonly adopted as the translation of these terms, conveys no accurate conception of the form, material, or use of that which they denoted. The article designated by them was always a...