Although never truly domesticated, a small number of jungle cats have been found among the cat mummies of Ancient Egypt ( the vast majority of which are domestic cats ), suggesting that they may have been used to help control rodent populations.

The modern domesticated turkey is descended from one of six subspecies of wild turkey: Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo, found in the area bounded by the present Mexican states of Jalisco, Guerrero, and Veracruz Ancient Mesoamericans domesticated this subspecies, using its meat and eggs as major sources of protein and employing its feathers extensively for decorative purposes.

Some of the plants tried and then abandoned during the Neolithic period in the Ancient Near East, at sites like Gilgal, were later successfully domesticated in other parts of the world.

Egyptian cattle were a domesticated form of cattle kept by the Ancient Egyptians.

In Ancient Egypt, the scimitar oryx was domesticated and believed to be offerings for gods and used as food.

* Eridanos ( mythology ) ( or Eridanus ), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely

In Ancient Egypt, somewhere between the Third Intermediate Period and 23rd Dynasty ( ca.

Mokey, Wembley, and Boober ended up somewhere back in time where the Ancient Fraggles mistook Mokey as the legendary Blundig ( who Mokey was dressed as when she, Wembley, and Boober were rehearsing a play about Blundig ).

Ancient sources identify the location as Idistaviso, but the precise location is unknown, save that it was on the right side of the Weser River, somewhere up between the cities of Minden and Hamelin of present-day Germany.

Close similarities between Ancient Greek and Vedic Sanskrit suggest that both Proto-Greek and Proto-Indo-Iranian were still quite similar to either late Proto-Indo-European, which would place the latter somewhere in the late 4th millennium BC, or a post-PIE Graeco-Aryan proto-language.

However, Ancient Egyptian is highly divergent from Proto-Afroasiatic ( Trombetti 1905: 1 – 2 ), and considerable time must have elapsed in between them.

Current opinion holds that the closer cultural similarity between the Mogollon and Ancient Pueblos and their greater differences from the Hohokam and Patayan is due to both the geography and the variety of climate zones in the Southwest.

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.

* Rehren, T. and Martinon Torres, M. ( 2008 ) " Naturam ars imitate: European brassmaking between craft and science " in Martinon-Torres, M and Rehren, T. ( eds ) Archaeology, History and Science Integrating Approaches to Ancient Material: Left Coast Press

It was the formulation of Mary as the Theotokos which caused a schism with the Church of the East, now divided between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East, while the Chaldean Catholic Church entered into full communion with Rome in the 16th century.

Ancient Egyptian religion was not a monolithic institution, but consisted of a vast and varying set of beliefs and practices, linked by their common focus on the interaction between the world of humans and the world of the divine.

He probably participated in the First Punic War, the first of three wars fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage, although no details of his role are known.

The First Punic War ( 264 to 241 BC ) was the first of three wars fought between Ancient Carthage and the Roman Republic.

The traditional classification in the West, which goes back to the Ancient Greeks, begins with a distinction between precious and semi-precious stones ; similar distinctions are made in other cultures.

Ancient Greece in the eighth through fourth centuries BC, between the Greek Dark Ages and the Hellenistic period, is referred to as Hellenic Greece.

Ancient astronomers were able to differentiate between stars and planets, as stars remain relatively fixed over the centuries while planets will move an appreciable amount during a comparatively short time.

Harappa, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt between c. 3500 BCE and 3100 BCE.

In Ancient Greece, Spartan King Leonidas I, hero of the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, was married to his niece Gorgo, daughter of his half-brother Cleomenes I. Greek law allowed marriage between a brother and sister if they had different mothers.

The Lighthouse of Alexandria ( in Ancient Greek, ὁ Φάρος της Ἀλεξανδρείας ), was a tower built between 280 and 247 BC on the island of Pharos at Alexandria, Egypt.

In Ancient Judaism, his fourth major work on the sociology of religion, Weber attempted to explain the factors which resulted in the early differences between Oriental and Occidental religiosity.

Despite of being a sea-related Ancient Greek creature, he apparently doesn't know the differences between a demigod of Poseidon and other gods.

In Ancient Greece, the orchestra was the space between the auditorium and the proscenium ( or stage ), in which were stationed the chorus and the instrumentalists.

The critical thinking of Aristotle and his emphasis on the relationship between structure and function marked the beginning of physiology in Ancient Greece, while Claudius Galenus ( c. 126-199 A. D .), known as Galen, was the first to use experiments to probe the function of the body.

The idea that the Middle Ages was a " middle " phase between two other large scale periodizing concepts, Ancient and Modern, still persists.

Their dialects, sometimes referred to as Ancient Pomeranian, had transitory character between the Polabian dialects spoken west of Pomerania, and the Old Polish dialects spoken to the Southeast.

In Ancient Greece, however, pacifism seems not to have existed except as a broad moral guideline against violence between individuals.

Cinnamon is native to Sri Lanka and has been found in Ancient Egypt as early as 1500 BC, suggesting early trade between Egypt and the island's inhabitants.

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.

It bears three inscriptions: the top register in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the second in the Egyptian demotic script, and the third in Ancient Greek.

A third Satellaview title released in March 1997, BS Zelda no Densetsu Inishie no Sekiban ( BS The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets ) could also be considered a spin-off for the same reason.

The Orpheos Bakkikos crucifixion, hematite seal reflecting Ancient Greece | ancient Greek themes, considered to be from the third or fourth century CE, although a more recent source concludes that it is from the early Christian era.

This book is traditionally the first authentic text assigned to students of Latin, as Xenophon's Anabasis is for students of Ancient Greek ; they are both autobiographical tales of military adventure told in the third person.

The Ancient Indian Kama Sutra refers to people of a " third sex " ( triteeyaprakrti ), who can be dressed either in men's or in women's clothes and perform fellatio on men.

Every year on the third Saturday in July, Deep River hosts the Deep River Ancient Muster.

For example, in the third verse of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

“ Ethnographic examples ‘ third genders ’ can come from distinct societies located in Thailand, Polynesia, Melanesia, Native America, western Africa, and elsewhere and from any point in history, from Ancient Greece, to sixteenth century England to contemporary North America.

The second of the articles of union stated that there were but three degrees in " pure Ancient Masonry ", but included the Royal Arch in the third degree.

The Nemean Games () were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, and were held at Nemea every two years ( or every third ).

With the Isthmian Games, the Nemean Games were held both the year before and the year after the Ancient Olympic Games and the Pythian Games in the third year of the Olympiad cycle.

With the new lineup, Ancient released their third album, Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends.

The third version, called No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Being an Ancient Tale Found in a Jug and Freely Translated from the Jug, returns to Medieval Austria and tells of No. 44's mysterious appearance at the door of a print shop and his use of heavenly powers to expose the futility of mankind's existence.

The Acharnians ( Ancient Greek: / Attic / Akharneĩs ) is the third play-and the earliest of the eleven surviving plays-by the Athenian playwright Aristophanes.

Bishop's 1983 Locus Award-winning novella " Her Habiline Husband " forms the first third of Ancient of Days, published in 1985 by Arbor House.

Heqamaatre Ramesses IV ( also written Ramses or Rameses ) was the third pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.

Second or third century dates is the range given in The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook, Marvin W. Meyer editor, 1987 p. 235.

* The elder Silanus, was the third born son to Aemilia Lepida and Marcus Junius Silanus Torquatus, a member of the Junii Silani, a family of Ancient Rome.

Ancient Gandhara, the valley of Pekhawar, with the adjacent hilly regions of Swat and Buner, Dir and Bajaur was one of the earliest centers of Buddhist religion and culture following the reign of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, in the third century BC.

While the Egyptian priest Manetho, writing in the third century BC, stated that Djer ruled for 57 years, modern research by Toby Wilkinson in Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt stresses that the near-contemporary and therefore, more accurate Palermo Stone ascribes Djer a reign of " 41 complete and partial years.

The month of Hathor is also the third month of the Season of Akhet ( Inundation ) in Ancient Egypt, when the Nile floods historically covered the land of Egypt ; they have not done so since the construction of the High Dam at Aswan.