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- History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ...s were made of ivory or soft stone, however some clay human and animal figures have been found. Small...
6: ...e used for high quality sculpture and inlays. [[Clay]] was used for pottery and terra cotta sculpture...
8: ... a wooden harp with gold and mosaic inlay with a black-bearded golden bull's head.
11: ...bi was famous for his [[Code of Hammurabi|code of law]]. A bearded head, made of diorite, is believed...
13: Also well-known is the lamassu, a human-headed winged lion from 883-859 BC.... - Greece (54754 bytes)
1: ...estern world|Western civilization]] and the birthplace of [[democracy]], Greece has a long and rich hi...
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6: ...dth="130px"| [[Image:Greece flag large.png|125px|Flag of Greece]] || align=center width=130px | [[Imag...
8: ...gn=center width=130 | ([[Flag of Greece|National Flag]]) || align=center width=130px |
11: ...#913;ΝΑΤΟΣ<br>''([[Greek language|Greek]]: Freedom or Death)'' - Luxor (8772 bytes)
3: ...e also the [[Luxor Hotel]] in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], [[United States|USA]]''
7: ...t city of [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]], and has a population of approximately 150,000.
11: ...political supremacy, artistic work and grandiose plans. Several of them never came to be true, like th...
13: ...", as Egypt was then called — consecrated a large portion of their treasures for their expensive...
16: ...e island of [[Crete]], the [[Greece|Greek]]s of [[Mycenae]]. One Hittite prince even came to marry with the... - Writing system (16928 bytes)
1: ...ements or statements expressible in some spoken [[language]], for the purpose of [[communication]].
4: ...ecessarily depend upon prior knowledge of a given language in order to extract associated meaning.
6: ...etrieved independently of the initial act of formulation.
10: ...ng]]s to the base elements, their ordering, and relations to one another;
11: :* a spoken language whose constructions are represented and abl... - Ephesus (4587 bytes)
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5: ..., was venerated in the [[Temple of Artemis]], the largest building of the ancient world, according to ...
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11: ...abitants in the year 100 CE, making it one of the largest cities of the day. Also built in Ephesus aro...
13: ...en cities]] addressed in [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]] (2:1-7). There is also a letter written by ... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
1: ...2px|right|An artistic rendition of an imaginary Atlantis]]
2: ...ato did mention it was somewhere outside the [[Pillars of Hercules]] (i.e. the [[Straits of Gibraltar]...
5: ...] and the Atlantians around 9,000 years before [[Plato]]'s existence.
7: The origins of the story of Atlantis date back to Egyptian priests who transfered ...
9: ===Plato=== - Bronze Age (9344 bytes)
9: ...ciated with the disturbances created by large population movements in the [[12th century BC]] and the ...
25: ...odern methods of accounting were not used, or available. Numerous authorities believe that ancient emp...
27: ...re, the area north of the [[Black Sea]], lost population and probably some degree of cultivation in th...
29: ... scale necessary for the bronze production of the late bronze age would have exhausted them in less th...
33: ...hich then lost crucial battles with the [[Mycenae|Mycenaean]] navy, so that a former colony took over the e... - Troy (22846 bytes)
2: ...y|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
7: ...ith the city called '''''Wilusa''''' in [[Hittite language|Hittite]] texts; ''Ilion'' (which goes back...
8: ...y|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
10: ... the sea monster snatches away the people of the plain.
11: ...y|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]] - Ashkelon (5935 bytes)
5: Ashkelon was the oldest and largest seaport in ancient [[Canaan]], one of the "f...
6: ...pire|Roman]], [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]], [[Islam]]ic, and [[Crusade]]r occupation.
8: ...ined tunnel-like barrel vault, coated with white plaster, to support the superstructure: it is the old...
10: ...nt, a vast semi-circle protecting Ashkalon on the landward side. On the sea it was defended by a high ...
12: ...l]] and [[Baal]] (the "lord," whose name was translated into Hebrew as "[[Moloch]]"). Calf worship was... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
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6: ... in which the wind may transfer objects from one place to another, and with the transition to the afte...
9: ...]] and [[Arcadia]]. His origin on Mt. Cyllene explains the origin of an epithet for Hermēs: ''He...
11: ...ashion, the name [[Hermes Trismegistus]] was used later by [[alchemy|alchemists]] and their like to re...
13: ...with the Germanic god Wotan/Woden/[[Odin]], hence Latin ''dies Mercurius'' corresponds to English ''We... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
2: ...eece)|Thebes]], and [[Tiryns]] are also important Mycenaean sites.
4: == Mycenaean civilization ==
6: ...and historians doubt that any such invasion took place.
8: ...their early form of [[Greek language|Greek]]. The Mycenaean era script is called [[Linear B]].
10: ... gold masks, tiaras, armour, and jeweled weapons. Mycenaeans were buried in a sitting position, and some of... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
2: ...r, subsequent discoveries have made it clear that Mycenae was not its chief center of Aegean civilization i...
15: ...iths' and painters' work of the Greek mainland ([[Mycenae]], [[Vaphio]], [[Tiryns]]).
19: The arrangement of Aegean palaces is of two main types.
21: ...from a long side and divided longitudinally by pillars.
23: ...ith [[Egyptian]], [[Babylonian]] and [[Hittite]] plans, both these arrangements remain out of keeping ...
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