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Ancient and Roman
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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There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).
He wrote another book, Maxims of the Roman Law and some of the Ancient French Law, as Expounded and Applied in Doctrine and Jurisprudence.
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Archeological site of Tossal de Manises, ancient Iberians | Iberian – Carthaginian – Ancient Rome | Roman city of " Akra-Leuke " or " Lucentum "
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Concrete technology was known by the Ancient Romans and was widely used within the Roman Empire.
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It is uncertain where it was first discovered that a combination of hydrated non-hydraulic lime and a pozzolan produces a hydraulic mixture ( see also: Pozzolanic reaction ), but concrete made from such mixtures was first used by the Ancient Macedonians and three centuries later on a large scale by Roman engineers.
* Ancient Roman originals can be seen on the pages of the Roman Military Equipment Web museum, Romancoins. info
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Ancient and coins
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.
The Ancient Greek colony of Selinous ( Greek: Σελινοῦς, Selinoūs ), on Sicily, was named after wild parsley that grew abundantly there ; Selinountian coins depicted a parsley leaf as the symbol of the city.
The museum is named after August Kestner and exhibits 6, 000 years of applied art in four areas: Ancient cultures, ancient Egypt, applied art and a valuable collection of historic coins.
Ancient Rome | Roman coins excavated in Essaouira, 3rd century.
Ancient Chinese " money cards " have four suits: coins ( or cash ), strings of coins ( which may have been misinterpreted as sticks from crude drawings ), myriads ( of coins or of strings ), and tens of myriads ( a myriad is 10, 000 ).
Ancient Sparta minted coins from iron to discourage its citizens from engaging in foreign trade.
Numismatists have collections of these monetary tokens, which include coins from some Ancient World large-scale societies, although initial usage involved unmarked lumps of precious metal.
Ancient Chinese Cash ( Chinese coin ) | cash coins date back to the 2nd century B. C ..
In his lectures, illustrated from his own collections of coins and vases, he dealt chiefly with Greek and Ancient Roman pottery and numismatics.
The Ancient Greeks are recorded to have played a game of tossing coins, then flat stones, and later stone balls, called spheristics, trying to have them go as far as possible, as early as the 6th century BC.
In Ancient Greece a Gorgoneion ( or stone head, engraving, or drawing of a Gorgon face, often with snakes protruding wildly and the tongue sticking out between her fangs ) frequently was used as an apotropaic symbol and placed on doors, walls, floors, coins, shields, breastplates, and tombstones in the hopes of warding off evil.
*, Ancient Elenic coins of Kyzikos
Indonesian Ancient Relics Conservation Bureau ( BP3 ) of East Java verified that those coins dated as early as Majapahit era.
Ancient Roman pottery, coins, and other Roman products are found in Irish archaeology from the period, though not in large quantities.
On the ground floor there is an extensive collection of papyrus and coins used in the Ancient world.
Ancient coins indicate preliminary plans to top the column with a statue of a bird, probably an eagle, but after construction, a statue of Trajan was put in place ; this statue disappeared in the Middle Ages.
The collection of antiquities includes coins from ancient times through to the Middle Ages, artefacts from Ancient India and Central Asia, Ancient Cyprus and Ancient Egypt.
Together these cover antiquities from Ancient Egypt, Sudan, Greece and Rome, Roman and Romano-Egyptian Art, Western Asiatic displays and a new gallery of Cypriot Art ; applied arts, including English and European pottery and glass, furniture, clocks, fans, armour, Chinese, Japanese and Korean art, rugs and samplers ; coins and medals ; illuminated, literary and music manuscripts and rare printed books ; paintings, including masterpieces by Simone Martini, Olivuccio di Ciccarello, Domenico Veneziano, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Van Dyck, van Goyen, Frans Hals, Canaletto, Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso and a fine collection of 20th-century art ; miniatures, drawings, watercolours and prints.
Ancient coins were produced through a process of hitting a hammer positioned over an anvil.
Following this principle, in the most famous of Ancient Greek coins, the tetradrachm of Athens, the obverse is the head of Athena and the reverse is her owl.

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