Thus Jerome's Chronicon lists 36 kings of the Assyrians, beginning with Ninus, son of Belus, down to Sardanapalus, the last king of the Assyrians before the empire fell to Arbaces the Median.

He lists seven kings of the Anglo-Saxons whom he regards as having held imperium, or overlordship ; only one king of Wessex, Ceawlin, is listed, and none from Mercia, though elsewhere he acknowledges the secular power several of the Mercians held.

Mercia was arguably the most powerful Anglo-Saxon kingdom for much of the late 7th and 8th centuries, though Mercian kings are missed out of the two main ' lists '.

" Chapter 12 lists the vanquished kings on both sides of the Jordan.

He is often known as Constantine I, in reference to his place in modern lists of kings of Scots, though contemporary sources described Causantín only as a Pictish king.

Other sources include regnal lists of the kings of Kent and early charters.

The witness lists of Anglo-Saxon charters, which reveal when or not Wulfstan attended Eadred's court, in his own right or as a diplomat intermediating between two kings, have been used to provide a chronological framework for Wulfstan's swerving loyalties.

Earlier in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People chronicle, he lists seven kings who governed the southern provinces of the English, with reigns dating from the late fifth to the late seventh century.

Archaeological evidence and two surviving lists of kings show that one Achila II ruled in the northeast of the kingdom at this time, but his relationship to Roderic is unknown.

Other sources include papal letters, regnal lists of the kings of Kent, and early charters.

The surviving regnal lists show only one king reigning at a time in Kent, but subkingdoms were common among the Anglo-Saxons and from the reign of Hlothhere, in the late seventh century, there is evidence that Kent was usually ruled by two kings, though often one is clearly dominant.

The standard ancient Sumerian King List ( WB 444 ) lists various mythical antediluvian kings and gives them reigns of several tens of thousands of years.

However, a modern reconstruction of the later lists of Dál Riata kings presumes that Óengus's nephew Domnall was king of Dál Riata during this time ( approximately 811 – 835 ).

The Swedish Royal Court officially lists three Swedish kings before him by the name.

Although the Roman historian Livy ( 59 BC – AD 17 ) lists a series of seven kings of early Rome in his work Ab Urbe Condita, from its establishment through its earliest years, the degree to which the first four kings ( Romulus, Numa, Tullus Hostilius and Ancus Marcius ) are apocryphal is certainly open to question.

Fomenko lists a number of pairs of seemingly unrelated dynasties – for example, dynasties of kings of Israel and emperors of late Western Roman Empire ( AD 300-476 ) – and claims that this method demonstrates correlations between their reigns.

Two lists of kings recently found in the tombs of Den and Qa ' a ( both found in Abydos and both in the form of mud seal impressions ) show Narmer as the founder of the First Dynasty, who was then followed by Hor-Aha.

He may be found on some lists of Scottish kings, but there is no evidence that he was king.

The New Kingdom lists are each selective in their listings: that of Seti I, for instance, lists seventy-six kings from Dynasties I to XIX omitting the Hyksos rulers and those associated with the heretic Akhenaten.

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Additionally, Helck assumes that the kings Sneferka and Horus “ Bird ” were omitted from later king lists because their struggles for the Egyptian throne were factors in the collapse of the first dynasty.

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From the Medieval Arabic king lists of both African states, allegedly copied from earlier lists in ancient Near Eastern languages it appears that the state founders claimed to be deportees of the Assyrian empire who had fled from Syria and Samaria after the defeat of the Egyptian-Assyrian army at Carchemish in 605 BCE.

Similar lists existed in ancient China and Japan.

The original production dates of some of Euripides's plays are known from ancient records, such as lists of prize-winners at the Dionysia, and approximations are obtained for the remainder by various means.

" Hestia's omission from some lists of the Twelve Olympians is sometimes taken as illustration of her passive, non-confrontational nature – by giving her Olympian seat to Dionysus she prevents heavenly conflict – but no ancient source or myth describes such a surrender or removal.

The Suda lists the ancient canon of Greek bucolic poets as Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, which should reflect chronogical order, and Moschus flourished in the mid 2nd century BC.

The historical period of ancient Greece is unique in world history as the first period attested directly in proper historiography, while earlier ancient history or proto-history is known by much more circumstantial evidence, such as annals or king lists, and pragmatic epigraphy.

The Hanging Gardens were not the only World Wonder in Babylon ; the city walls and obelisk attributed to Queen Semiramis were also featured in ancient lists of Wonders.

The following list is collated from several lists given in ancient sources.

Though she does not appear among the lists of nereids in Iliad XVIII or Bibliotheke 1. 2. 7, such an ancient island nymph in other contexts might gain any of various Olympian parentages: she was thought of as a daughter of Poseidon with any of several primordial sea-goddesses — with whom she might be identified herself — notably Halia or Amphitrite.

Dawn Prince-Hughes lists Bes as fitting with other archetypal long-haired Bigfoot-like ape-man figures from ancient Northern Africa, " a squat, bandy-legged figure depicted with fur about his body, a prominent brow, and short, pug nose.

The lists were probably based on the conjecture of ancient critics and yet there is little doubt that they reflect Aristophanes ' intentions.

Lexicostatistics is a tool that linguistic relations through the comparative method of historical linguistics ( identification of demonstrable shared innovations ) but only 100 or 200 words from Swadesh lists are used and since Pawley's 1966 publication, teasing out the ancient relationships of the Polynesian languages and the proofs of shared innovations.

The ancient Turin King List lists a mythical predynastic " reign of the gods " which first occurred 36, 620 years before Menes ( 3050 BC ), therefore dating the creation to around 39, 670 BC.

Mentuhotep III was succeeded by Mentuhotep IV, whose name significantly is omitted from all ancient Egyptian king lists.

In ancient Canaanite culture, high places were frequently considered to be sacred, and Mount Carmel appears to have been no exception ; Thutmose III lists a holy headland among his Canaanite territories, and if this equates to Carmel, as Egyptologists such as Maspero believe, then it would indicate that the mountain headland was considered sacred from at least the 15th century BC.

This makes the Chronology of the ancient Near East very difficult to reconstruct, based on disparate and scattered king lists, such as the Sumerian King List or the Babylonian Canon of Kings.

Its first grant, in the modern sense as to have been counted in strict lists of peerages, is now generally held to have taken place in favor of Maol Íosa V, Earl of Strathearn, in 1334, although in the true circumstances of 14th century, this presumably was just a recognition of his hereditary right to the ancient earldom / mormaership of Caithness.

However, Chulla-Niddesa, another ancient text of the Buddhist canon substitutes Yona for Gandhara and thus lists the Kamboja and the Yona as the only Mahajanapadas from Uttarapatha This shows that Kamboja had included Gandhara at the time the Chulla-Niddesa list was written by Buddhists.