It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.

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Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

The order Anura ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and oura, tail ) comprises the frogs and toads.

The order Gymnophiona ( from the Greek, gymnos and ophis meaning " naked serpent ") or Apoda ( from the Ancient Greek an -, without and poda, legs ) comprise the caecilians.

The Ancient Greek word for seaweed was φῦκος ( fūkos or phykos ), which could mean either the seaweed ( probably red algae ) or a red dye derived from it.

The use of the abacus in Ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who writes that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left, opposite in direction to the Greek left-to-right method.

This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.

Anatomy ( from the Ancient Greek, anatemnein: ana, " separate, apart from ", and temnein, " to cut up, cut open ") is a branch of biology and medicine that considers the structure of living things.

The first Western literature, including the Hurrian – Hittite literature, the first Greek polis and the two main schools of Ancient Greek philosophy seem to originate in this region.

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Ancient Anatolia is subdivided by modern scholars into various regions named after the various Indo-European ( and largely Hittite, Luwian or Greek speaking ) peoples that occupied them, such as Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Pisidia, Paphlagonia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.

Over several centuries, numerous Ancient Greek city states were established on the coasts of Anatolia.

The name actinium originates from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos ( ακτίς, ακτίνος ), meaning beam or ray.

In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced when short and when long.

In the Attic-Ionic dialect of Ancient Greek, long alpha fronted to ( eta ).

Privative a is the Ancient Greek prefix ἀ-or ἀν-a -, an -, added to words to negate them.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

Statuette of the Apollo Lykeios type, Ancient Agora of Athens | Museum of the Ancient Agora of Athens ( inv.

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek Attic white-ground alabastron, ca.

6th-century BCE Ancient Corinth | Corinthian vase depicting Andromeda, Perseus and Cetus.

The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

File: Ancient German armour helmet. jpg | Ancient Germanic helmet.

Archeological site of Tossal de Manises, ancient Iberians | Iberian – Carthaginian – Ancient Rome | Roman city of " Akra-Leuke " or " Lucentum "

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek hoplite s playing a board game, ca.

File: Column drum Ephesus. JPG | Room 22-Column from the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, early 4th century, BC

File: Carved ivory depicting a woman at a window. jpg | Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, 9th-8th century BC ( the Nimrud Ivories are widely considered to be one of the Ancient Near East's greatest discoveries )

Ancient Rome | Roman crankshaft dated to the 2nd century AD.

In the kiva of both Ancient Pueblo Peoples | ancient and present-day Pueblo people s, the sipapu is a small round hole in the floor that represents the portal through which the ancestors Hopi mythology # Four Worlds | first emerged ( the larger hole is a fire pit, here in a ruin from the Mesa Verde National Park )

The Tholos ( Ancient Rome ) | Tholos at the base of Mount Parnassus: 3 of 20 Doric column s.

Ancient Rome | Roman folding doors at Pompeii ( 1st century Common Era | CE ).

Ancient Rome | Roman wall painting in the Villa Boscoreale, Italy ( 1st century Common Era | CE ).

Ancient epichoric variants of the Greek alphabet from Euboea, Ionia, Athens and Ancient Corinth | Corinth comparing to modern Greek.

A photograph of the best known Ancient Rome | Roman era amphitheatre taken in the early evening.

The name Barcelona comes from the ancient Iberian Phoenician Barkeno, attested in an ancient coin inscription in Iberian script as Barkeno in Levantine Iberian script, in Ancient Greek sources as, Barkinṓn ; and in Latin as Barcino, Barcilonum and Barceno.

A possible early kenning for " gold " ( walha-kurna " Roman / Gallic grain ") is attested in the Ancient Nordic runic inscription on the Tjurkö ( I )- C bracteate.

Ancient Roman inscription in Roman square capitals.

Ancient inscription in Samaritan Hebrew.

Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek lead sling bullets with a winged thunderbolt engraved on one side and the inscription " ΔΕΞΑΙ " ( Dexai ) meaning " take that " or " catch " on the other side, 4th century BC, from Athens, British Museum.

Ancient Persian bas-relief – Apadana or Behistun inscription, ancient Greek pottery, archaeological findings from Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China et al.

Antiochus V, Ancient Greek | Greek inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ANTIOXOY means " of king Antiochus "

Reverse shows the Ancient Greek | Greek inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ (" Basileus Antiochus, God Manifest, Bearer of Victory ").

* " Proto-Türkic rune-like inscription on silver cup ( Issyk Inscription )" by A. S. Amanjolov, in " History Of Ancient Türkic Script ", Almaty 2003

Folk artists performing at a funeral Ancient Tamil works, such as the Cilappatikaram, describe a system of music, and a 7th-century Pallava inscription at Kudimiyamalai contains one of the earliest surviving examples of Indian music in notation.

File: CMOC Treasures of Ancient China exhibit-oracle bone inscription. jpg | An oracle bone ( which is incomplete ) with a diviner asking the Shang king if there would be misfortune over the next ten days

The entrance to the " Great Room ", which housed the annual Summer Exhibition, has the formidable inscription " Let no stranger to the Muses enter " in Ancient Greek.

Ancient silver Tetradrachm from Tenedos, depicting Zeus and Hera and bearing the inscription " Τενεδίων " ( Tenediotes ) on the other side.

* II phase ( second quarter – end of the 4th century BC ): reconstruction in the site ’ s plan, connected with the reign of King Cotys I, heyday of Pistiros, regulations concerning the statute of Pistiros and its emporitai ( Ancient Greek ," Εμπορίται ") in the Vetren inscription.

The inscription in Ancient Greek states

In Ancient Egypt, reference to ululation appears on the inscription of the pyramid texts of Unas, on the West Wall of the Corridor ( section XIII ), and of Pepi I, in the Spells for Entering the Akhet.

Ancient Egyptian medical instruments depicted in a Ptolemaic period inscription on the Temple of Kom Ombo.