* c. 3000 BC: Ancient backgammon set, found in the Burnt City in Iran.

Several strategy games, such as Rise of Nations, Rome: Total War, Spartan Total Warrior, Empire Earth, Civilization, Ancient Wars: Sparta, Age of Empires, Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City and Age of Mythology, feature infantry units called " Hoplites " or " Phalanx ".

* The Ancient City of Antioch Map

* Ancient city walls around the City of David

Modern buildings based upon the Mausoleum of Mausolus include the National Newark Building in Newark, New Jersey, Grant's Tomb and 26 Broadway in New York City, Los Angeles City Hall, the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia, the spire of St. George's Church, Bloomsbury in London, the Indiana War Memorial ( and in turn Chase Tower ) in Indianapolis, the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction's headquarters, the House of the Temple in Washington D. C., the Civil Courts Building in St. Louis, and the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial in Pittsburgh.

* Ancient City of Salamis

The Aztecs prayed to her when there were deaths in water, such as when Hernando Cortez conquered Tenochtitlan ( the Ancient Aztec capital on a lake, now Mexico City ), and the lake was said to be " floating with heads and corpses ".

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Ancient City Press.

* Slifer, Dennis, Signs of Life: Rock art in the Upper Rio Grande, Ancient City Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1998

* Ostia — Harbor City of Ancient Rome including an introduction

Xunantunich ( pronounced / ʃunantunit ͡ ʃ /) is an Ancient Mayan archaeological site in western Belize, about 80 miles ( 130 km ) west of Belize City, in the Cayo District.

The provincial slogan is Fa Daet Song Yang Ancient City, Pong Lang Folk Music, Phu Thai Culture, Phrae Wa Silk, Pha Saweoi Phu Phan, Lam Pao River, and Million-year Dinosaurs.

Also in 1725 " The Ancient and Honourable Society and Fraternity of Freemasons meeting since time immemorial in the City of York " assumed the title, " The Grand Lodge of All England meeting in the City of York.

Kyoto: A Cultural Guide to Japan's Ancient Imperial City.

Durrës Castle | Durrës Ancient City Wall Entrance

The city hosts the Durres Ancient City Wall called also Durrës Castle while the largest amphitheatre in the Balkans is located in the city close to the harbour.

Fenghuang Ancient City is an ancient community in Hunan Province.

Cape Agios Stefanos, the nearest to Anatolia, is 2250m south of the modern Turkish town of Kaş ( Greek: Andífli, the Ancient Greek City of Antiphéllos ).

* The Ancient City at the McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought

* I. T. Hill ( 1953 ) The Ancient City of Athens.

The Ancient City of Polonnaruwa has been declared a World Heritage Site.

* Ancient City of Polonnaruwa

* Iraq's Ancient Past — Penn Museum

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 ).

In Ancient China, successful men often supported several concubines — for example, it has been documented that Chinese Emperors accommodated numbers in the thousands.

* tense — Ancient Greek: present, past, future ;

* aspect — Ancient Greek: imperfective, perfective ( traditionally called aorist ), perfect ( sometimes also called perfective ; see note about terminology );

* mood — Ancient Greek: indicative, subjunctive, imperative, and optative ;

* voice — Ancient Greek: active, middle, and passive ;

By the time of Cicero he had become " the dark " ( Ancient Greek — ) because he had spoken nimis obscurē, " too obscurely ", concerning nature and had done so deliberately in order to be misunderstood.

( The word history — from the Ancient Greek ιστορία, or istoria, meaning " a learning or knowing by inquiry "— is etymologically unrelated to the possessive pronoun his.

Ancient dry riverbeds — called omuramba — traverse the Central Northern reaches of the Kalahari and provide standing pools of water during the rainy season.

The Ancient Library of Alexandria According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter ( ca. 367 BC — ca. 283 BC ).

* Dachang Ancient Town — China ( flooded by the Three Gorges Dam )

The name Lupercalia was believed in antiquity to evince some connection with the Ancient Greek festival of the Arcadian Lykaia ( from Ancient Greek: λύκος — lukos, " wolf ", Latin lupus ) and the worship of Lycaean Pan, assumed to be a Greek equivalent to Faunus, as instituted by Evander.

* Ancient Mesopotamia — timeline, definition, and articles at Ancient History Encyclopedia

Nails go back at least to Ancient Egypt — bronze nails found in Egypt have been dated 3400 BC.

The Odyssey was written in a poetic dialect of Greek — a literary amalgam of Aeolic Greek, Ionic Greek, and other Ancient Greek dialects — and comprises 12, 110 lines of dactylic hexameter.

For thousands of years, the largest structures on Earth were pyramids — first the Red Pyramid in the Dashur Necropolis and then the Great Pyramid of Khufu, both of Egypt, the latter the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still remaining.

* 506 BC — Battle of Boju: during the Spring and Autumn Period of Ancient China, the forces of the State of Wu under commander and strategist Sun Tzu defeat the forces of Chu, destroying the Chu capital of Ying and forcing King Zhao of Chu to flee.

* c. 500 BC — Yayoi period starts in Ancient Japan.

* Tyrtaeus — Ancient Greek poet, general and musician