The Roman Near East, 31 B. C .– A. D.

As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities ; Near Eastern Antiquities ; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities ; Islamic Art ; Sculpture ; Decorative Arts ; Paintings ; Prints and Drawings.

It was as a military commander that Trajan is best known to history, particularly for his conquests in the Near East, but initially for the two wars against Dacia — the reduction to client kingdom ( 101 – 102 ), followed by actual incorporation into the Empire of the trans-Danube border kingdom of Dacia — an area that had troubled Roman thought for over a decade with the unfavourable ( and to some, shameful ) peace negotiated by Domitian's ministers.

During this period Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius ( 43 ).

It has been alleged that some of Lactantius ' account is motivated by his desire to establish that persecutors of the Christians died fitting deaths ; the story was repeated then and later by authors in the Roman Near East fiercely hostile to Persia.

If Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Byzantine Greeks during the Christian Middle Ages, then it is a multiform organism, combining Greek and Christian civilization on the common foundation of the Roman political system, set in the intellectual and ethnographic atmosphere of the Near East.

The Israelites (, Standard: ; Tiberian: ; ISO 259-3: ) were a Semitic Hebrew-speaking people of the Ancient Near East, who inhabited part of the Land of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods ( 15th to 6th centuries BCE ), later evolving into Jews and Samaritans of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, inhabiting the territories of Judea and Galilee, and Samaria respectively, though a Jewish diaspora had already developed outside of Judea and Galilee.

While so-called ' pitched ' brick vaulting, which could be constructed without centering, may date back in the Ancient Near East to the 2nd millennium BC, the earliest evidence of the pointed masonry arch appears in late Roman and Sassanian architecture, mostly evidenced in early church building in Syria and Mesopotamia, but occasionally also in secular structures like the Karamagara Bridge.

The species originated in tropical Asia and spread through the Near East in Roman times before reaching Europe by the 1st century and spreading with Europeans across the world.

The black rat originated in India and Southeast Asia, and spread to the Near East and Egypt, and then throughout the Roman Empire, reaching England as early as the 1st century.

* Near the sea, in the Roman amphitheatre, are the remains of a church called Santa Maria del Miracle ( Holy Mary of the Miracle ), which belonged to the Knights Templar.

Near the village are many remains of ancient buildings, Egyptian, Greek and Roman.

* Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165 – 189 AD brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East

Davidson asserts that while cultivation of the apple in Northern Europe extends back to at least the time of the Roman Empire and came to Europe from the Near East, the native varieties of apple trees growing in Northern Europe are small and bitter.

Paul K. Davis writes that " Pydna marked the final destruction of Alexander ’ s empire and introduced Roman authority over the Near East.

Roman dragons evolved from serpentine Greek ones, combined with the dragons of the Near East, in the mix that characterized the hybrid Greek / Eastern Hellenistic culture.

This is seen as one of the final acts in the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, and a key turning point in the decline of the Empire and of Christianity in the Near East.

Studies in the Late Roman, Sasanian, and Early Islamic Near East.

Near the Bourne Spring two Roman buildings were discovered ; one was a bath-house dating from about AD 270 and the other a house of later date.

“ The Archaeology of Roman Palestine .” Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol.

North Africa ( red region on map below ) is the seat of the Mediterranean culture, including ancient Egypt and Carthage, civilizations with strong ties to the ancient Near East and which have heavily influenced the ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

Near Kintore, not distant from the Don, is the Deers Den Roman Camp.

However, small corbel domes functioning as dwellings for poorer people appear to have remained the norm throughout the ancient Near East until the introduction of the monumental dome in the Roman period.

Near Neuwied, one of the largest Roman castra on the Rhine has been excavated by archeologists.

Near the later site of Amphipolis Alexander I of Macedon defeated the remains of Xerxes ' army in 479 BC.

Near the town of Sillamäe, site of a former uranium enrichment plant, about 1, 200 tons of uranium and about 750 tons of thorium had been dumped into a reservoir on the shore of the Gulf of Finland.

Near Uhlandstraße U-Bahn station is the Kempinski hotel as well as the Theater am Kurfürstendamm at the site of a former exhibition hall of the Berlin Secession art association.

* University of California Digital Nineveh Archives A teaching and research tool presenting a comprehensive picture of Nineveh within the history of archaeology in the Near East, including a searchable data repository for meaningful analysis of currently unlinked sets of data from different areas of the site and different episodes in the 160-year history of excavations.

Near the Palm House is a building known as " Museum No. 1 " ( even though it is the only museum on the site ), which was designed by Decimus Burton and opened in 1857.

Used since the 11th century BC in the ancient Near East, the 4th century BC in Europe and also in antiquity in the Far East, siege towers were of unwieldy dimensions and, like trebuchets, were therefore mostly constructed on site of the siege.

Near the airport is the site of a closed ( December 2000 ) alumina factory which processed bauxite from Suriname and West Africa.

The site selected was new parkland being created along the Lake Michigan shoreline between 12th and 39th streets in Near South Side, Chicago.

Near the main square is a clock, decorated with dragons, which is now an open-air theatre site and art and craft stores and the Tashi supermarket.

Near Fiddown along the River Suir it consists of a long narrow island of marsh / woodland covered in willow scrub and bordered by reed swamps-it is the only known site of its type in Ireland.

Near the site there is now a museum, and monuments of remembrance of those transported and killed during World War II.

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

Sippar ( Sumerian: Zimbir ) was an ancient Near Eastern city on the east bank of the Euphrates river, located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah in Iraq's Babil Governorate, some 60 km north of Babylon and 30 km southeast of Baghdad.

Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists, who eventually settled in Jamestown, on April 26, 1607.

Near the site of van der Donck's mill is Philipse Manor Hall, a Colonial-era manor house which today serves as a museum and archive, offering many glimpses into life before the American Revolution.

Near this hostelry lie St Catherine's school for girls and St James's school for boys, formerly a convent, in a building on the site of Pope's white stucco villa and the location of Pope's original — surviving — grotto.

Near that same site sits the second oldest private cemetery in the county, the Historic Yorba Cemetery.

Near the site of the former Olla Military Institute, B. E.

Near the center of town, Ashfield Lake feeds into the South River, and is a recreational site.

Near the city is the significant archaeological and historic site of Joara, a regional chiefdom of Mississippian culture and the location where the Spanish built Fort San Juan in 1567.

Near the entrance to nearby Ten Sleep Canyon is the former site of the Girl Scout National Center West, a portion of which was one of the largest encampments in the world at.

Lachish (; ; ) was an ancient Near East town located at the site of modern Tell ed-Duweir in the Shephelah, a region between Mount Hebron and the maritime plain of Philistia ( Joshua 10: 3, 5 ; 12: 11 ).

Nonetheless the site now contains the only remains of an Assyrian siege ramp in the Near East.

Near the 3 ' end there is a branch site.