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- Esther (5002 bytes)
14: Ahasuerus, having rid himself of [[Vashti]], chose Esther to be his wife and...
19: ... Some believe that she did. The Greek historian [[Herodotus]] wrote that Xerxes sought his [[Harem (household...
21: ...that "Esther" and "Mordecai" are simply Hebrew forms of "Ishtar" and "Marduk". The custom of preparing... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
39: Ancient Egyptians considered themselves to be '''The People of Two Lands''', these l...
60: ... the Nile for their crops. They also perceived themselves as a specially selected people, "as the only...
75: ...d by unrest, followed. The Union of the Two Kingdoms fell apart and regional leaders had to cope with ...
86: ...o realise the power of this chariot and use it themselves. This breakdown of central control marks th...
120: ...gypt|Tanis]] as the 21st Dynasty. Their reign seems to be without any other distinction and they were... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
11: ...usand years later the great [[Greek]] historian [[Herodotus]] wrote about Indian cotton: "There are trees whi...
19: ...which in many cases differed little from the systems of slavery. - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
1: The '''Great Pyramid''' of [[Giza]] ({{coor dms|29|97|60|N|31|13|22|E|scale:50000}}) is the olde...
32: ...his passageway once contained crude stone mechanisms for one-time release of huge granite blocks which...
36: ...d that this is, in fact, the legendary king which Herodotus calls Kheops.
43: ...or force needed to construct the Great Pyramid. [[Herodotus]], the [[Greece|Greek]] historian in the [[5th ce...
49: Herodotus speculated that the stone blocks used in the Grea... - Egyptian pyramids (20601 bytes)
7: [[Image:PyramidDatePalms.JPG|left|222px|thumb|The Great Pyramid of Giza in...
76: ...cted under the auspices of one of the sons of [[Ramses II]]. Saqqara is also the location of the incom...
118: ...rinth]] mentioned by such ancient historians as [[Herodotus]], [[Strabo]] and [[Diodorus Siculus]], and which...
155: *[http://www.great-pyramid.info/inhalt/html/me/mstarte.htm www.great-pyramid.info] – Photog... - Luxor (8772 bytes)
18: Then, after the victory of [[Ramses III]] over the Sea Peoples, a very slow decay c...
23: ...n in these times of decay, the Greek historian [[Herodotus]] was able to speak of the One Hundred Gates of T... - Isis (20790 bytes)
32: ...at its arms curve down, and in all these cases seems to represent the idea of eternal life/resurrectio...
49: ...ctor, and later the deification, of the Pharaoh himself. Consequently, on occasion, her mother was sai...
59: Beliefs about Ra himself had been hovering around the identification of...
65: ...orus from a lethal scorpion sting; she also performs other miracles in relation to the so-called [[cip...
81: ...ed in Rome. According to [[Josephus]], Caligula himself donned female garb and took part in the myster... - Bast goddess (3454 bytes)
12: ...-Bast was [[excavation (archaeology)|excavated]]. Herodotus writes that when a cat in the family dies, Egypti... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
10: ...ntial on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern w...
15: ...nce, survive. Secondary and tertiary texts such [[Herodotus]] "Histories", [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias...
17: ...ical writers whose works have survived, notably [[Herodotus]], [[Thucydides]], [[Xenophon]], [[Demosthenes]],...
26: .... The Greeks both at home and abroad organised themselves into independent communities, and the city (...
38: ...rchy was abolished in [[683 BC|683 BC]], and reforms of [[Solon]] established a semi-constitutional sy... - Alexander I of Macedon (1759 bytes)
3: According to [[Herodotus]] he was unfriendly to [[Persian Empire|Persia]],... - Lydia (2194 bytes)
10: When Herodotus (i. 7), tells that the "Meiones" (called Maeones ... - Amyntas I of Macedon (1062 bytes)
4: '''Ancient sources:''' ([[Herodotus]] v. 17, 94; [[Junianus Justinus|Justin]] vii. 2;... - Anacharsis (4399 bytes)
18: ...ks, in order to become acquainted with their customs and institutions; but I have no need of gold, and...
20: ...en he did return to the Scythians, he was killed, Herodotus (iv, 76) reported, by his own brother, for his Gr... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
32: ...rom [[1070 BC]]. Though the originating source seems sufficiently reliable, silk unfortunately degrade...
35: By the time of [[Herodotus]] (c. [[475 BC]]) the Persian [[Royal Road]] ran ...
67: ...n the [[Nile]]-[[Oxus]] section and [[Three Kingdoms]] to [[Yuan Dynasty]] in the Sinitic zone in its ... - Garlic (12167 bytes)
36: ...of [[thrombosis]], and hypertension but these claims are disputed as there has been no clinical trial ...
41: ...teemed (see [[Sir Henry Rawlinson|Rawlinson]]'s ''Herodotus'', 2.125).
43: ...it as the "rustic's theriac" (cure-all) (see F Adams's ''Paulus Aegineta'', p. 99), and [[Alexander Ne...
45: ...ing by the simoon." "O dura messorum ilia," exclaims [[Horace]] (Epod. iii.), as he records his detest...
71: The term "wild garlic" is now used to refer to ramsons (''Allium ursinum''). In North America, "wild... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
23: ...d remains of many centuries' worth of animal victims immolated there.
40: ...an gods, by contrast, usually received white victims sacrificed upon raised altars.
48: ...eaves and branches (Od. 14.326-7). By the time [[Herodotus]] wrote about Dodona, female priestesses called [...
53: ...large in the Greek mind during the archaic era: [[Herodotus]] mentions consultations with Zeus Ammon in his a... - Literature (25676 bytes)
7: ...lications. The [[Western canon|Western Canon]] forms one such literature.
11: ..." and some popular forms of written work. The terms "literary fiction" and "literary merit" often ser...
15: ...purpose. Moralising or prescriptive literature stems from such sources. The exotic nature of [[romance...
17: == Forms of literature ==
21: ...is a composition usually written in [[verse]]. Poems rely heavily on [[imagery]], precise words choice... - History of the Kurds (8244 bytes)
3: ...al Mitanni leadership. However, Kurds consider themselves as much Indo-European as they do any of thes...
9: ...r roll of the army of [[Xerxes I|Xerxes]] which [[Herodotus]] has preserved.
21: ... Obaidullah's raid into Persia, when various circumstances led the central government to reassert its ... - Scythia (22520 bytes)
17: A Pazyryk burial found in the [[1990s]] seems to confirm at least part of the legend. It contai...
25: ... of the [[8th century BC]]. Herodotus even confirms that their king [[Partatua]] was allied with Assy...
27: ..., they were compelled to switch sides and ally themselves with the Medes. They comprised part of the f...
29: ... were apparently reached by crossing the Danube. Herodotus relates that, being nomads, they were able to fru...
31: ...|3rd centuries]] BC the Scythians prospered. When Herodotus wrote his ''Histories'' in the 5th century BC, Gr... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
48: ...il mound on the N. and E. sides, while a third forms a triangle with the S.E. angle of the other two. ...
49: ...miles/68 km) in circumference, while according to Herodotus it measured 480 stades (56 miles/90 km), which wo...
51: ...out 260 km² (100 square miles). According to Herodotus the width of the walls was 24 m (80 ft).
53: ...'". The bricks became sought after collectors' items after the fall of Saddam, and the ruins are being...
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