Territorial expansion during the 18th dynasty was a response to the threats that had weakened Egypt in the past. During the Second Intermediate Period, different kingdoms had successfully invaded Egypt from the south and the east, weakening the region economically. In response, the New Kingdom ...
During the first 200 years of the ancient Roman Empire, the currency was the silver denarius. The gold standard nonsense Palmyra kingdom was one of the most important ancient Syrian kingdoms as it flourished in particular during the reign of Queen Zenobia and its civilization competed with the ...
Lu Dai (161-256), courtesy name Dinggong, was a famous military general of the state of the Wu Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms. Lu Dai lived an upright life, and Rugao still has places such as Sima Port and Dasima Road named in his honor. In the third year of the Kaicheng period ...
The “Ancient Wuyue Trail” used to be the main road connecting the Wuyue Kingdom and the Southern Tang Kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (AD 907-979). It starts from the present-day Ningguo, Anhui Province and ends in Lin’an, Zhejiang Province....
two kingdoms formed. Lower Egypt in the north and Upper Egypt in the south, with capitals in Buto and Hierakonpolis, respectively. The entire country was finally united around 3000 B.C. by Menes (Mena), king of the southern kingdom, who seized Lower Egypt and built the fortress “White...
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If you have been to the south of the Yangtze River in May Then every spring thereafter, you may miss this place! PenelopeMcAllister39 A truly off-the-beaten-path ancient town in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai! 🎈In late October, the Jiangnan region is full of autumn charm. Let...
One of the world’s most remarkable—and little known—empires comes to life in south India with new heritage tours.
At a crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe, the South Arabian kingdoms were major commercial and cultural players in world history. Their art and architecture, and especially their irrigation system, featuring a gigantic dam high in the mountains, give witness to a fascinating civilization, ...
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans. While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the commitment of the paleogenomics community to open data, formats for both raw data and