aTheater was a very big part of life in Alexandria and throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. It was not only where you got to see the latest plays but also a place to be seen. It was the place where politics happened, where great speeches were made, where factions were formed and...
aTheater was a very big part of life in Alexandria and throughout the ancient Mediterranean world. I t was not only where you got to see the latest plays but also a place to be seen. It was the place where politics happened, where great speeches were made, where factions were formed ...
The ancient city of Troy in Homer's The Iliad was considered a fictional setting for his characters to run wild. But in 1871, explorations in northwestern Turkey exposed nine ancient cities layered(层叠)on top of each other, the earliest dating back to about 5,000 years be...
200 BCE-270 CE Alexandria 0.60 Egypt Showing 1 to 10 of 36 entries ‹1234› Ancient Cities in the Fertile Crescent Considered the “cradle of civilization,” the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East was home to all seven of the largest cities in the world in 3,000 BCE. The Sumerian...
Ancient Greek Medicine & Philosophy– Spirit or pneuma for breath was regarded as the animating force found in living creatures. We see this idea carried on by folk beliefs where in 1628 and 1633, William Harvey and René Descartes both speculated that there must be somewhere in the body a ...
Most of the tomb's goods are now on display at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza. However, Tutankhamun's mummy and sarcophagus are still on display in the tomb in Luxor. Tutankhamun is one of the pharaohs of the 18th dynasty, as is known in the history of ancient Egypt. He was the ...
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but the architectural legacy of this powerful ancient civilization was not limited to these sites alone. There were other important cities and religious sites scattered up and down the Nile Valley where the monuments of the pharaohs and great temples of the ancient religion were built and where im...
And in turn Dionysos suffers the loss of his phallos in a story recounted by Clement of Alexandria in the second book of his Exhortation to the Greeks: If you wish to inspect the orgies of the Korybantes, then know that, having killed their third brother, they covered the head of the...
In 1994, it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of the “Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto.” The temple’s main 14th century Zen garden, with its backdrop of the Arashiyama mountains, is an example of shakkei (borrowed scenery). The last picture is a very tired,...