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As discussed above, there was correspondence between the Hittite King and the Egyptian Pharaoh about urgent grain shipments for Hattusa. Famine can drive people from their lands and could be one of the causes for the mass migrations seen at this time, and could also have pushed the Sea ...
Many Roman empresses had good luck with their sons. The wife of the first emperor, Livia Drusilla, was rich, beautiful, incomparably well-connected, and suspected in the deaths of most of her step-descendants. They included Augustus’ only legitimate daughter, and his granddaughter; and...
Many great ancient civilizations employed signet rings in one form or another. In Ancient Egypt, pharaohs, religious leaders, and nobles would wear rings made of stone or a unique glazed pottery type calledfaience. The rings were flat on the outside and ornately decorated with hieroglyphics used...
The ancient Egyptians recorded things such as how much food was produced at harvest time, how many soldiers were in the army, numbers of workers and the number of gifts given to the Gods. These were the most important members of the Egyptian social classes, as far as historians were ...
Egyptian pharaohs from the Eighteenth Dynasty were known for their weseskswhich were collars/necklaces and were given to officials and dignitaries – as well as soldiers – as a mark of honor. Many companies and organizations used to give watches to guysas a retirement gift to memorialize the ...
This doomed city at the heart of the Trojan War was lost for thousands of years until a team of German archaeologists uncovered the ancient site.
The ancestors of these great structures are the burial tombs found throughout North America and Europe -- simple mounds of earth that covered burial chambers. The first tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs were flat, box-shaped buildings calledmastabas(Arabic for "bench"). Pharaohs later built grande...
In the 16th century B.C., three steadfast, wise, and powerful queens led Egypt against Hyksos invaders—and won.