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- Luxor (8772 bytes)
7: ...touring [[Upper Egypt]], and is a popular holiday destination, both in its own right and as a starting...
11: ...everal of them never came to be true, like the golden obelisk of [[Hatshepsut]], but who says that the...
13: ... a debate in metaphysics. And yet, on the other side of the river, the supreme masters of [[Kemet]] &m...
16: ...of [[Ay]], the high priest of Amun, since he intended to ascend to the throne of Thebes through such a...
18: ...ny more, but rather the whole city was to be considered as an entire mausoleum and therefore venerated... - Cuneiform script (7588 bytes)
6: ==Development==
7: ...tating counter-clockwise all of the pictograms 90° in the process), and a new wedge-tipped stylus ...
9: ...iform tablets could be fired in [[kiln]]s to provide a permanent record, or they could be recycled if ...
11: ...ssyria]]ns to write their own languages and was widely used in [[Mesopotamia]] for about 3000 years, t...
13: ...nese]], written in a [[Chinese language|Chinese]] derived script; some of these Sinograms were used as... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
4: ...name is the Greek form of ''[[Babel]],'' which is derived in turn from the [[Semitic]] form ''bab-Illu...
8: ...tury BC]] [[short chronology|short chr.]]), who made it the capital of his empire. Over the years its ...
10: ...as besieged and taken over by [[Sennacherib]] and Assurbanipal (Kandalanu) again.
14: [[Image:Babylon relief.jpg|right|thumb|Detail of the Ishtar Gate]]
16: ...lder son [[Shamash-shum-ukin]], who eventually headed a revolt against his brother [[Assur-bani-pal]] ... - Ancient music (3386 bytes)
2: '''Ancient music''' is [[music]] that developed in literate cultures, replacing [[prehisto...
4: ...usic]]. For [[Arab music]], [[ancient history]] ended in [[622 CE]].
6: ...Ajax (play)|Ajax]]''), a few [[hymn]]s by [[Mesomedes]] of [[Crete]] ([[second century AD]]), and the ...
8: ...nsidered to continue its "ancient" style and includes much [[Asian music]], [[Jewish music]], [[Greek ...
12: ...ved both [[Iraqi wars]], and attempts are being made to play a replica of it as part of a touring [[or... - Cuneiform (script) (7717 bytes)
6: ==Development==
7: ...tating counter-clockwise all of the pictograms 90° in the process), and a new wedge-tipped stylus ...
9: ...iform tablets could be fired in [[kiln]]s to provide a permanent record, or they could be recycled if ...
11: ...ssyria]]ns to write their own languages and was widely used in [[Mesopotamia]] for about 3000 years, t...
13: ...nese]], written in a [[Chinese language|Chinese]] derived script; some of these Sinograms were used as... - Nineveh (10193 bytes)
3: ...cient [[Assyria]], lying within the area of the modern city of [[Mosul]] in [[Iraq]]. This "exceeding ...
8: ...eafter successive monarchs kept in repair and founded new palaces, temples to [[Sin]], [[Nergal]], [[N...
10: ...f the principal doorways were flanked by human-headed bulls. At this time the total area of Nineveh co...
13: ...d. The Assyrian empire then came to an end, the Medes and Babylonians dividing its provinces between t...
15: ...ving ruled for more than six hundred years with hideous
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