ancient history n. 1.The history of times long past. 2.InformalCommon knowledge, especially of a recent event that has lost its original impact or importance. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company...
The capital of the island and nomós, Zákynthos town, lies on the east coast on the site of ancient Zacynthus; it is the seat of a metropolitan bishop. Zacynthus was named for an ancient Arcadian chief; the 5th-century-bce historian Thucydides said that it was colonized by Achaeans ...
and there is no adequate national library. Distinctive of Greekintellectuallife are the numerous societies devoted to the study of local and regional archaeology, history, and folklore, reflecting the strong regional loyalties of many Greeks. The country’s most prestigious learned society is theAcadem...
The two living species of bison (European and American) are among the few terrestrial megafauna to have survived the late Pleistocene extinctions. Despite the extensive bovid fossil record in Eurasia, the evolutionary history of the European bison (or wisent,Bison bonasus) before the Holocene (<11...
For those who love history and archaeology, travelling through Greece is an absolute joy. There is something around every corner, bend in the road, mountain top or valley. History, and its remains, are everywhere. For me, however, the thing I like the most about this ancient land is how...
ArchaeologyEuropean historyAncient history Ancient Halyciaea new perspective of the Roman influence over the Elymi in SalemiSicily NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Michael J. Kolb GenovaMichaelThe aim of this project is to determine whether a Roman presence existed in Salemi/Halyciae, Sicily during the ...
For those who love history and archaeology, travelling through Greece is an absolute joy. There is something around every corner, bend in the road, mountain top or valley. History, and its remains, are everywhere. For me, however, the thing I like the most about this ancient land is how...
The Neolithic and Bronze Ages were highly transformative periods for the genetic history of Europe but for the Aegean—a region fundamental to Europe’s prehistory—the biological dimensions of cultural transitions have been elucidated only to a limited extent so far. We have analysed newly generated...
"The sum of money were equivalent to the income of a full-time working adult male for twenty years at that time," said Zhang Chunlong, a researcher at the Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and one of the excavators of the Liye Qin Slips. ...
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