The map, apparently of the 3rd century, was copied by a monk at Colmar, in 1265, who fortunately contented himself with adding a few scriptural names, and having been acquired by the learned Conrad Peutinger of FIG. 5. - A Section of Peutinger's Tabula. Augsburg it became known as ...
How did the Scythian Empire fall? During the second half of the 3rd century BCE, the Scythian Empire was subjected to an onslaught of invasions by Celts and Thracians from the East, and Samaritans from the West. This led to the fall of the Classical period of Scythian culture, and of Sc...
The modern city of Sofia was named in the 14th century after the basilica St. Sofia. In Greek, the word sofia means wisdom. In the 3rd century AD, the Romans built strong walls around Serdica, their capital of Inner Dacia and an important stopping point on the Roman road from Naisus (...
Historically, Iranians have referred to their country as "Iran," meaning "the land of the Aryans." The name was first attested in the 3rd century AC, but it was very likely used before. In 1935, Reza Shah (king of Iran at the time) asked the international community to call the count...
An educational broadsheet, featuring a map of Iberia, a prospect of Madrid and portrait of Charles III (1716-1788, king of Spain from 1759), flanked by lists of the kings of Spain from AD 416 to 1759, with the lengths of reigns in Roman numerals.From a very scarce series of broadside...
century AD. Proclus reports that Crantor said he had travelled to Egypt and seen the same columns on which Plato had seen the history of Atlantis, written in hieroglyphic characterZoticus, a Neoplatonist philosopher of the 3rd century AD, wrote an epic poem based on Plato's account of ...
In the ancient world it was successively the capital city of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded as one of the birthplaces of Western civilization. Since the 1st century AD, Rome has been considered the seat of the Papacy and in the 8th century ...
This paper is a first presentation of a Chinese Map of the World or Kunyutu 坤輿圖 discovered in a Federal library in Berne in 2017. It focusses on the rendering of the 7000 characters contained within the map. The translation of the complete 112 text blocks on the map will be provided...
Originally this would have been the route from the northern gate of Rome to the Roman Forum. In the centre of the Piazza is an Egyptian obelisk, dating from the rule of Ramses II, which was brought to Rome in 10BC, and put in this plaza in the 16th century. ...
Roman Bath – The Roman bath was created while Emperor Caracalla reigned to honor the God of Medicine, known as Asclepius, in 3rd century AD. The bath consists of a hot room (Caldarium), warm room (Tepidarium), and a cold room (Frigidarium), which was entered after the Caldarium and...