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- Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra near Latakia, Syria) was an ancient cosmopolitan ... Age libraries of clay tablets in various ancient languages. The most significant ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- a sacred place in Hinduism. According to ancient Hindu texts, at one time ... The ancient scriptures mention that the water of Ganges carries the ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- berries were used medicinally by the Ancient Egyptian doctors, the Ancient ... as medicine by many cultures. Doctors in ancient Egypt used the volatile ...23 KB (3,212 words) - 21:18, 4 October 2022
- and it became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium ... The name of Athens in Ancient Greek was Athḗnai (Ἀθῆναι ...19 KB (3,013 words) - 18:52, 19 August 2023
- in what is now northern Sudan. While the ancient kingdoms of Nubia had changing ... as well as written records from Egypt and Rome. In antiquity, Nubia was a ...24 KB (3,779 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- The halo first appeared in the culture of Hellenistic Greece and Rome ... ninth-century writer of his vita, John, deacon of Rome. ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- in favor of the Flavian forces, who entered Rome on December 20. The following ... buried under ash and lava. One year later, Rome was struck by fire and a plague ...53 KB (7,893 words) - 19:45, 12 July 2023
- #039;s history to the Classic Age of Rome and Ancient Greece. ... a coherent chronology of events from Rome's departure from Britain ...18 KB (2,773 words) - 06:00, 28 July 2023
- In Ancient Egypt, Apis or Hapis (alternatively spelt Hapi-ankh) was ... eventually being propagated as far as Ancient Rome. The great syncretic faith ...21 KB (3,246 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- has a very long pedigree, dating back to ancient Sumeria. In a Western context ... director of the choir of St Peter's Rome from 1576 to 1594, would have ...17 KB (2,678 words) - 14:25, 29 November 2023
- Ferdinand II of Spain, and the pope in Rome. When he returned to Florence ... concepts of republican government from ancient Rome and developing them in ...29 KB (4,511 words) - 23:28, 14 November 2022
- Antichrist is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek ... a Roman prophetess, whose seat was the ancient Etruscan town of Tibur ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- #039;) just before or after his death in Rome. The two brothers lost ... Nor is it known for sure which liturgy—that of Rome or that of Constantin ...33 KB (4,701 words) - 20:51, 17 April 2023
- 15) in 44 B.C.E. sparked a new civil war in Rome, leading to the ascension ... Julius Caesar was born in Rome, into a patrician family (gens Julia ...44 KB (7,133 words) - 19:23, 4 February 2024
- In ancient times the most common form of advertising was by word of mouth; however, commercial messages and political campaign displays have ...19 KB (2,738 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
- artists of the circle of Pietro Cavallini of Rome. The Basilica was badly damaged by the earthquake of September 26, 1997. Part of the vault collapsed ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2023
- building in California was a replica of an ancient Roman villa of the Papyri ... to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria. ...17 KB (2,774 words) - 08:23, 13 March 2024
- Phoenicia was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient ... dye Tyrian purple. The dye was used in ancient textile trade, and highly ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- Perhaps the most salient example of henotheism is found in the ancient ... century B.C.E. texts found at Ugarit (ancient Ras-Shamra). In some cases ...15 KB (2,313 words) - 15:20, 25 January 2023
- of Saint Peter, preserved in San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, a second-class relic.]] The Roman Catholic Church makes a distinction between veneration ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
