This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

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Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

Archeological site of Tossal de Manises, ancient Iberians | Iberian – Carthaginian – Ancient Rome | Roman city of " Akra-Leuke " or " Lucentum "

After the death of Alexander the city ( now known as Akroinοn ( Ακροϊνόν ) or Nikopolis ( Νικόπολις ) in Ancient Greek ), was ruled by the Seleucids and the kings of Pergamon, then Rome and Byzantium.

Lost and found advertising on papyrus was common in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

Biological terrorism dates as far back as Ancient Rome, when feces were thrown into faces of enemies.

At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71, 000 objects of all kinds including some 40, 000 printed books, 7, 000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas.

AD 300 – 600 ); especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ( ca.

Evidence from the archaeological and historical record of Ancient Rome and medieval Mesopotamia indicates that coins were collected and catalogued by scholars and state treasuries.

Many scholars argue that these sophisticated fortifications allowed the east to develop relatively unmolested while Ancient Rome and the west collapsed.

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Ancient resources as well as recent archaeological evidence suggest that, at one point, Caligula had the palace extended to annex this structure. When several kings came to Rome to pay their respects to him and argued about their nobility of descent, he cried out " Let there be one Lord, one King ".

Ancient Rome | Roman crankshaft dated to the 2nd century AD.

From the time of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, this fact has been addressed by empires adopting the concept of universalism, and applying it to their imperial policies towards their subjects far from the imperial capitol.

The Tholos ( Ancient Rome ) | Tholos at the base of Mount Parnassus: 3 of 20 Doric column s.

Ancient Rome | Roman folding doors at Pompeii ( 1st century Common Era | CE ).

Ancient Rome | Roman wall painting in the Villa Boscoreale, Italy ( 1st century Common Era | CE ).

* Ancient Hebrew Research Center, research and learning Hebrew resources

* PACE Josephus: text and resources in the Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement at York University

* Ancient History-Academic Info: directory of online resources for the study of ancient history.

* History of Ancient Rome OpenCourseWare from the University of Notre Dame providing free resources including lectures, discussion questions, assignments and exams.

Concordance of Ancient Site Names, edited by Eileen Fry and Maryly Snow, published as Topical Paper No. 2 of ARLIS / NA ( see 1987 call for visual resources authority work ).

Aporia or aporeia ( Ancient Greek:: impasse ; lack of resources ; puzzlement ; doubt ; confusion ) denotes in philosophy a philosophical puzzle or state of puzzlement and in rhetoric a rhetorically useful expression of doubt.

* Ancient Divination and Astrology on the Web, Dream interpretation resources

Ancient Chacoans drew upon dense forests of oak, piñon, ponderosa pine, and juniper to obtain timber and other resources.

Besides that, there are a number of additional problems concerning Ancient historians ; they could be very biased in their reports, as inflating the number of enemies has been one of the favourite propagandistic resources of all times.

* Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece from Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times 1996 Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-06956-1 A text to accompany the Perseus Project on-line resources.

About 1500 delegates are expected to register today for the biennial session of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.

We find, for example, such groupings as the Five Ancient Rulers, the Five Sacred Mountains, the Five Directions ( with Center ), the Five Metals, Five Colors, Five Tastes, Five Odors, Five Musical Notes, Five Bodily Functions, Five Viscera, and many others.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The word Anaasází is Navajo for " Ancient Ones " or " Ancient Enemy ".

The Ancient Pueblo favored building under such overhangs for shelters and building sites.

While the amount of winter snowfall varied greatly, the Ancient Pueblo depended on the snow for most of their water.

The Ancient Pueblo culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras.

Earlier than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes were a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.

Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.

They settled first in the Ancient Pueblo areas for a few hundred years, then migrated to their current location.

It has also been recently suggested that the rapid climatic collapse, marking the Akkadian Dark Age, may have been responsible for the religiously prescribed prohibition against the raising and consumption of pigs that spread through the Ancient Middle East from the end of the third millennium BC.

Ancient Egyptians burned ambergris as incense, while in modern Egypt ambergris is used for scenting cigarettes.

Ancient authors were almost invariably from an elite background for whom giving poor and uneducated people power over their betters seemed a reversal of the proper, rational order of society.

The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words for " earless " in both cases: the monkey is missing external ears, and the pea is missing earlike bracteoles.

Ancient Lessons for Global Politics.

He wrote " The Princes of the Lost Tribe " and " Ancient Queen of Somawathee " for Menaka De Shabandu and Bridget Halpe's choirs, respectively, based on historical incidents in ancient Sri Lanka.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

One early example is the founding in 1877 of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in Britain to protect the built heritage, this society continues to be active today.

Androphagi ( Ancient Greek: " Ἀνδροφάγοι " for " man-eaters ") was an ancient nation of cannibals north of Scythia ( according to Herodotus ), probably in the forests between the upper waters of the Dnepr and Don.

Oreichalkos, the Ancient Greek translation of this term, was later adapted to the Latin aurichalcum meaning " golden copper " which became the standard term for brass.

The Edicts of Ashoka established constitutional principles for the 3rd century BC Maurya king's rule in Ancient India.

A further example comes from Ancient Greece, where the Athenian legal system was first written down by Draco in about 621 BC: the death penalty was applied for a particularly wide range of crimes, though Solon later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.

Parts of Ancient India and Nepal where Buddhism originated were also for long periods Buddhist, and whether as a result of the Buddhist, Jain or Hindu promotion of the principle of ahimsa ( harmlessness ) many Indians remain vegetarian.