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- [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the British ... The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stele inscribed with the same passage ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- ploughlands and gardens. She was considered the ancestor of the Roman people ... of eroticized female divinities featured in the legends of surrounding Indo ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- The International Astronomical Union (IAU) defines "planet" ... :(a) is in orbit around the sun; :(b) has sufficient mass for its self ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon ... Zeus is arguably the most identifiable character in all the world ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- of Pergamum; 129 C.E. – c. 210 C.E.) was the Greek physician and philosopher ... medicine. He is rightly regarded as the pioneer in surgery, making ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... feudal tenure was abolished, giving the Greeks the right to acquire land by ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- nation first mentioned and described by the classical Greek philosopher ... Plato's account of Atlantis, believed to be the first, is found ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- exchange of ambassadors and religious missions with the Greeks. The ... Very little is known about the economy of the Indo-Greeks. The abundance ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- Amulets were originally objects worn about the neck or other parts of the ... Closely related to the amulet is the talisman (from Arabic tilasm; ...13 KB (2,101 words) - 17:26, 26 July 2023
- In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera was the ... she is often enthroned and crowned with the polos, the high cylindrical ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- In Greek mythology, a nymph, from the Latin word nympha, is any member ... Worshiped by the ancient Greeks and said to come from the earth, they ...13 KB (2,065 words) - 19:37, 17 November 2022
- a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent ... The coastal area of Provence was settled by Greeks and Phoenicians ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 08:21, 2 December 2022
- In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 B.C.E. Bradford, Ernle Dusgate ... and other Greek sources. For the Greeks, the Persians were "barbarians ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- The phrase Son of God is a title that was applied to different figures ... Many figures in the ancient world used the phrase "Son of God ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- Xenophanes made a major breakthrough in the conception of God in the polytheistic ... among humans and should not be ascribable to the divine. He found the origin ...7 KB (1,024 words) - 14:28, 20 May 2023
- Asparagus is the name a genus of plants within the flowering plant ... As a vegetable, the tender, succulent shoots of asparagus not only ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- Henotheism (from the Greek heis theos or “one god”) refers to ... and paralleling the mythology of the Greeks, the Vedic gods also underwent ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- The Mausoleum of Maussollos (or Mausoleum of Halicarnassus) was a ... The finished structure was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 00:51, 9 November 2022
- August Wilhelm Schlegel, articulated the principles and ideas of the ... Schlegel’s Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- is a figure from Greek mythology called by Pindar "the minstrel ... His name does not occur in Homer or Hesiod, though he was known by ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... (phoînix), through its close association with the famous dye Tyrian ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- The Serbian Empire was a medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged ... The Serbian Empire has included areas of Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 05:59, 5 October 2022
- The Treaty of Lausanne (July 24, 1923) was a peace treaty signed in ... The nation-state of Turkey, recognized by the Treaty, became the first ...15 KB (2,295 words) - 14:56, 2 May 2023
- Iron Ages parallels that of the early Greeks. The Tuscan area was inhabited ... its manners and customs by contemporary Greeks, the cultures of Greece, and ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... into the combined deity. Similar to the Greeks, the ancient Egyptians also ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the ... B.C.E. in central Italy, and the Western Greeks, the Latins adopted writing ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- Menander I Soter, (The Saviour), known as Milinda in Indian sources ... He is also the first historical Westerner documented to have converted ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 04:28, 9 November 2022
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live. Aliens ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the founder of Epicureanism, one ... were sent to an Athenian settlement on the Aegean island of Samos. According ...19 KB (3,054 words) - 19:07, 13 February 2024
- The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war waged by the Greeks to win independence ...61 KB (9,207 words) - 16:50, 18 February 2023
- as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history that lasted for around ... cities, sent a fleet to punish the Greeks. The Persians landed in Attica ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- The Maurya Empire (322 – 185 B.C.E.), ruled by the Mauryan dynasty ... At its zenith, the Empire stretched to the northern natural boundaries ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- The liver is a large vertebrate organ positioned in the upper region ... class of cells, called Kupffer cells, line the vascular networks; their primary ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 20:54, 3 November 2022
- , Apellōn) was the god of light, truth, archery, music, medicine ... As one of the most popular of the Olympian deities and the patron ...31 KB (4,788 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral ... Williams became known internationally for his attempt to return the ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- ) was one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece ... Delphi is located in lower central Greece, on multiple terraces along ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- – July 529 B.C.E.), also known as Cyrus the Great and Cyrus II of Persia ... In historical artifacts discovered in the ancient ruins of Babylon ...22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
- The Balkan Wars were two wars in South-eastern Europe in 1912–1913 ... The anti-Ottoman struggle that led to Serbian independence in 1878 ...22 KB (3,406 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- Juniper is the common name for any of various evergreen, coniferous ... Juniper "berries," the fleshy female cones, which are commonly ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- Dacia, in ancient history and geography was the land of the Dacians. It was named by the ancient Hellenes (Greeks) "Getae." Dacia was ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- Divination is the attempt of ascertaining information by interpretation ... is often dismissed by skeptics, including the scientific community, as being ...16 KB (2,402 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- Copper (symbol Cu, atomic number 29) is one of the oldest known metals ... doorknobs are used in hospitals to prevent the transfer of germs, and copper ...21 KB (3,086 words) - 17:35, 21 May 2020
- of semi-philosophical writings survive under the title of Memoria, his more ... Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are the Bioi ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 08:08, 24 November 2022
- Horseradish (horse radish) is the common name for a perennial herb ... Horseradish is mainly cultivated for its large white, tapered root; ...16 KB (2,357 words) - 14:25, 7 February 2024
- of quartz often used as an ornamental stone. The name comes from the Greek ... Amethyst was used as a gemstone by the ancient Egyptians and was largely ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 06:54, 25 July 2023
- Sicily is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in ... and power ploys while stronger nations used the island as a base from which ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- The sphinx has had a long history of secrecy and intrigue, being viewed ... Ultimately the sphinx represents human desire and ability to penetrate ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- , Aidēs) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity ... The term Hades, in its cosmological sense, has sometimes been used ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- ) was the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo ... The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (located in western part of Turkey ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
