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- Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...[Hebrew Bible]], the queen of [[Ahasuerus]] (commonly identified with [[Xerxes I of Persia|Xerxes I]] ...
19: ... Some believe that she did. The Greek historian [[Herodotus]] wrote that Xerxes sought his [[Harem (household... - History of ancient Egypt (28563 bytes)
31: ...North Africa|Northeast Africa]] ([http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed...
33: ...araoh Khufu]] (also known as [[Cheops]]), is the only surviving monument of the [[Seven Wonders of the...
50: ...ancient Egyptians (freezing, pickling etc). The only method that they were aware of was by drying the...
60: ...emselves as a specially selected people, "as the only true human beings on earth" ([http://www.louisvi...
66: ...or [[slave]]s and anything else of value. It is unlikely that these people would have been used for t... - Cotton (7876 bytes)
4: Cotton is a valuable crop because only about 10% of the raw weight is lost in processin...
11: ...usand years later the great [[Greek]] historian [[Herodotus]] wrote about Indian cotton: "There are trees whi...
13: ...animal]] fibers ([[wool]] from [[sheep]]), could only imagine that cotton must be produced by plant-bo...
89: [[nl:Katoen]] - Great Pyramid of Giza (20454 bytes)
17: ... the four sides of the base have a mean error of only [[1 E-2 m|15 mm]] in length, and 12 [[arcsecond|...
22: ...aking it the largest pyramid in Egypt, surpassed only by the [[Great Pyramid of Cholula]] in [[Mexico]...
24: ... limestone could be seen miles away even under moonlight.
28: ...kind of granite known as "Red Aswan Granite" and only found some 250 miles South of Cairo.
34: ... and built is not known, although they were certainly not 'air' or 'ventilation' shafts. It is possibl... - Egyptian pyramids (20601 bytes)
11: ...Egyptian pyramids were built as "tombs and tombs only" as Egyptologists believe it would be necessary ...
35: ...r as little more than mounds of rubble, they are only now being properly identified and studied by arc...
41: ...he current archaelogicical consensus is that not only was it completed, but that it was originally abo...
55: Of the three, only Khafre's pyramid retains part of its original po...
57: ... [[Seven Wonders of the World]]. Today it is the only one of the ancient Wonders still in existence. - Luxor (8772 bytes)
13: Rising to political power only in the middle of the second millennium before Ch...
18: ...ense past and a legendary name of radiation that only Babylon could claim to match. [[Wenamun]], the p...
20: ...the invaders; [[Assurbanipal]] was the first and only to attack and destroy Thebes. Doing so, he acted...
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)
7: ...elieved to come from the [[Nile Delta]]; however unlike other [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] deities she d...
12: The most commonly used name for this deity, Isis, is a [[Greek lan...
14: ...ronunciation is unknown, as Egyptian hieroglyphs only recorded [[consonant]]s and [[semi-vowel]]s, and...
16: The Egyptian hieroglyphs for her name are commonly [[transliteration|transliterated]] as ''js.t''. ...
20: ...edicated specifically to Isis become wide-spread only in the Roman times. - 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)
2: ...]-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the territory of the present [[Greece|Greek s...
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]],...
50: ...Athens enrolled all the island states and some mainland allies into an alliance, called the [[Delian L...
58: ...]], [[Plato]], and [[Socrates]], the historians [[Herodotus]], [[Thucydides]], and [[Xenophon]], the poet [[S... - Alexander I of Macedon (1759 bytes)
3: According to [[Herodotus]] he was unfriendly to [[Persian Empire|Persia]],...
5: ...Olympic Games|Olympic Games]], an honor reserved only for Greeks. He modeled his court after [[Athens]... - Lydia (2194 bytes)
8: ...n capital Sardis is taken by Hyde (Ii. xx. 385), unless this was the name of the district in which Sar...
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)
6: ...enians took to him as a natural philosopher, not unlike the way the French took to [[Benjamin Franklin...
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)
5: These exchanges were critical not only for the development and flowering of the great c...
18: [[Lapis lazuli]] was being traded from its only known source in the ancient world – [[Bada...
32: ...ctually cultivated silk (which would almost certainly have come from China) that was discovered or a t...
35: By the time of [[Herodotus]] (c. [[475 BC]]) the Persian [[Royal Road]] ran ...
45: ... in the possession of the [[Dayuan]] (named "Heavenly horses"), which were of capital importance in fi... - Garlic (12167 bytes)
8: ...es" by cooks, are the part of the plant most commonly eaten, though some cooks also use the early spri...
32: ...stration of the effects of garlic that meets commonly accepted scientific standards.
41: ...teemed (see [[Sir Henry Rawlinson|Rawlinson]]'s ''Herodotus'', 2.125).
76: The types differ not only in culinary qualities, but in storage potential.... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
37: ...an flesh was said to turn into a wolf, and could only regain human form if he did not eat again of hum...
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...
83: ...era discovered the deception, she cursed Echo to only speak the words of others (hence our modern word... - Literature (25676 bytes)
5: ...zation|historical periods]]. Popular belief commonly holds that the literature of a [[nation]], for e...
9: ...as well as letters. To others, a literature must only include examples of text composed of letters, or...
54: ...y the aesthetic richness typical of poetry using only prose
62: ...]]s and the modern [[psychological novel]]. In mainland Europe, the [[Spain|Spaniard]] [[Miguel de Cer...
76: ...at quality. Major "literary" historians include [[Herodotus]], [[Thucydides]] and [[Procopius]], all of whom ... - History of the Kurds (8244 bytes)
7: ...ever quarter they may have sprung, belonged certainly to the Aryan family.
9: ...r roll of the army of [[Xerxes I|Xerxes]] which [[Herodotus]] has preserved.
15: ... and Kurdish chieftainhips were established, not only to the east and west of the Kurdistan mountains,... - Scythia (22520 bytes)
5: ...oples in the periphery [[steppe]]s were also commonly referred as "Scythians", but didn't speak [[Iran...
25: ..., from around the end of the [[8th century BC]]. Herodotus even confirms that their king [[Partatua]] was al...
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...
38: ...[[Ossetians]] descend from them. The latter, the only Iranian people presently resident in Europe, cal... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
16: ... underwent a constant state of revolt, which was only suppressed by the complete destruction of the ca...
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).
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