Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly...

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ [hellɛːnikɛ̌ː]) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500...

Ancient Egypt was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in the eastern part of North Africa. It emerged from...

Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was an ancient civilization existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to...

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of...

Ancient astronauts (or ancient aliens) refers to a pseudoscientific set of beliefs, also called paleocontact, that hold that intelligent extraterrestrial...

The Ancient Beringian (AB) is a human archaeogenetic lineage, based on the genome of an infant found at the Upward Sun River site (dubbed USR1), dated...

9053455°N 22.8801924°E / 37.9053455; 22.8801924 Corinth (/ˈkɒrɪnθ/ KORR-inth; Ancient Greek: Κόρινθος Kórinthos; Doric Greek: Ϙόρινθος Qórinthos; Latin: Corinthus)...

The Ancient One is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was the mentor of Doctor Strange and was his...

Ancient Aliens is an American television series produced by Prometheus Entertainment that explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts...

Thessalía or Θετταλία, Thettalía) was one of the traditional regions of Ancient Greece. During the Mycenaean period, Thessaly was known as Aeolia, a name...

Ancient Hawaii is the period of Hawaiian history preceding the establishment in 1795 of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi by Kamehameha the Great. Traditionally...

[ɛ̂ːlis]; Elean: Ϝᾶλις [wâːlis]; Greek: Ήλιδα, romanized: Ilida) was an ancient polis (city-state} in the northwestern Peloponnese in Greece. The polis...

East Ancient Mesopotamian religion Ancient Egyptian religion Historical Vedic religion Ancient Greek religion Religion in ancient Rome Ancient Celtic...

The expression Ancient Europe may be used in a variety of senses: The ancient concept of Europa in Greek geography, in origin "the landmass adjacent to...

information related to ancient humans: Human evolution Archaic humans Early modern humans Prehistoric people Ancient history Category:Ancient peoples Category:Lists...

The Ancient City of Aleppo (Arabic: مدينة حلب القديمة, romanized: Madīnat Ḥalab al-Qadīma) is the historic city centre of Aleppo, Syria. Prior to the...

This page lists some links to ancient philosophy, namely philosophical thought extending as far as early post-classical history (c. 600 CE). Genuine philosophical...

Ancient Carthage (/ˈkɑːrθɪdʒ/ KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. 'New City') (Tifinagh: ⵜⴰⵇⴻⵔⵟⴰⵊ) was an ancient civilization based in North Africa...

In ancient Greece, the drachma (Greek: δραχμή, romanized: drachmḗ, [drakʰmέː]; pl. drachmae or drachmas) was an ancient currency unit issued by many city-states...

Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that...

Ancient warfare is war that was conducted from the beginning of recorded history to the end of the ancient period. The difference between prehistoric and...

The banker of ancient times was employed within financial activities, during the ancient Mesopotamian, ancient Greek and ancient Roman periods. While certain...

An ancient lake is a lake that has consistently carried water for more than one million years. Twelve of the 20 ancient lakes have existed for more than...

Ancient Apocalypse is a television series, classified by its publisher Netflix as a documentary, where the British writer Graham Hancock presents his...

Ancient grains is a marketing term used to describe a category of grains and pseudocereals that are purported to have been minimally changed by selective...

Ancient DNA (aDNA) is DNA isolated from ancient sources (typically specimens, but also environmental DNA). Due to degradation processes (including cross-linking...

The Ancient of Days is a design by William Blake, originally published as the frontispiece to the 1794 work Europe a Prophecy. It draws its name from...

The Macedonians (Ancient Greek: Μακεδόνες, romanized: Makedónes) were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and...

Ancient Macedonian may refer to anything related to Macedonia (ancient kingdom), including: Ancient Macedonians Ancient Macedonian language Ancient Macedonian...

Ancient art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with different forms of writing, such as those of China...

The ancient universities are a set of seven surviving British and Irish medieval universities and early modern universities that were founded before 1600...

Ancient of Days is a name for God in the Book of Daniel. The title "Ancient of Days" has been used as a source of inspiration in art and music, denoting...

Ancient Siam (also known as Ancient City; Thai: เมืองโบราณ, RTGS: Muang Boran) is a museum park featuring replicas of famous Siamese sites. It was constructed...

Morocco). Ancient Libya is not to be confused with the modern country of Libya, which represents the eastern part of the territory at the time. Ancient Libya...

The Fort Ancient culture is a Native American archaeological culture that dates back to c. 1000–1750 CE. Members of the culture lived along the Ohio River...

The ancient history of Africa spans from the ancient period until the medieval and early modern period in the history of Africa. The ancient history of...

Ancient music consists of the musical cultures and practices that developed in the literate civilizations of the ancient world prior to the early medieval...

"Justified & Ancient" is a song by British band the KLF. It appeared featured on their 1991 studio album, The White Room, but its origins date back to...

In the United Kingdom, ancient woodland is that which has existed continuously since 1600 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (or 1750 in Scotland)...

Abilene (Ancient Greek: Ἀβιληνή) or simply Abila (Ancient Greek: Ἄβιλα) was a plain, a district in Coele-Syria, of which the chief town was Abila Lysaniou...

The ancient Near East was home to many cradles of civilization, spanning Ancient Mesopotamia, the ancient Levant, ancient Egypt, ancient Elam, ancient Anatolia...

The ancient veena is an early Indian arched harp, not to be confused with the modern Indian veena which is a type of lute or stick zither. Names of specific...

"Pyramid" in the context of ancient architecture primarily refers to the Egyptian pyramids (see List of Egyptian pyramids). Various other structures built...

Ancient furniture was made from many different materials, including reeds, wood, stone, metals, straw, and ivory. The furniture was decorated through...

During the growth of the ancient civilizations, ancient technology was the result of advances in engineering in ancient times. These advances in the history...

common guillemot. Ancient murrelets are called "ancient" because they have grey on the back like a shawl, as worn by the elderly. The ancient murrelet was...

Ancient Corp. is a Japanese video game developer based in Hino, Tokyo. It was founded on April 1, 1990 by composer Yuzo Koshiro, Ayano Koshiro, and Tomo...

Ancient Pistol is a swaggering soldier who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare. Although full of grandiose boasts about his prowess, he is essentially...

The treatise On Ancient Medicine (Greek: Περὶ Ἀρχαίας Ἰατρικῆς; Latin: De vetere medicina) is a work in the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of about...

Ancient Heart is the debut studio album by British pop/folk singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram, released by Warner Music Group on 12 September 1988. The...

Θεσπρωτίς, Thesprōtís), or Thesprotia (Θεσπρωτία, Thesprōtia), was an ancient region in Epirus in northwestern Greece. It encompassed the west-central...

Elephas (Ancient Greek: Ἐλέφας; "Elephant") was the name of a coastal mountain or cape on the Horn of Africa that appears in the geographical works of...

For the ancient Greeks, India (Greek: Ἰνδία) referred to the geographical region located east of Persia and south of the Himalayas, excluding Serica....

Ancient Armenia refers to the history of Armenia during Antiquity. It follows Prehistoric Armenia and covers a period of approximately one thousand years...

Ancient is a Norwegian black metal band from Bergen, formed in 1992. The band released six full-length albums released by Metal Blade Records to date...

The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws and Institutions of Greece and Rome (French: La Cité antique), published in 1864, is the seminal book...

Ancient Prophecies is a series of four TV specials that aired on NBC between 1994 and 1997. Hosted by David McCallum, each special focused on apocalyptic...

Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult...

Ancient aesthetics refers to the perception of beauty and form in the ancient world and the importance it was given in many ancient cultures. Aesthetics...

Ancient biography, bios or bioi (plural), as distinct from modern biography, was a genre of Greek and Roman literature interested in describing the goals...

Senon is the modern name for an ancient town and archaeological site in Roman Gaul located near the modern-day town of Senon in France, thought to have...

Look up ancient in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ancient or ancients may refer to: People or things from antiquity: Ancient history, from the beginning...

Ancient Thera (Greek: Αρχαία Θήρα) is an archaeological site from classical antiquity on the island of Santorini, which sits on the top of a limestone...

Ancient Evenings is a 1983 historical novel by American author Norman Mailer. Set in ancient Egypt and dealing with the lives of the characters Menenhetet...

Ancient Paths is a U.S. literary magazine devoted to the publication of Christian-themed poetry, stories, and artwork. Founded in 1998, it was originally...

following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient India: Ancient India is the Indian subcontinent from prehistoric times to the start...

Ancient Campania (often also identified as Campania Felix or ager Campanus) originally indicated the territory of the ancient city of Capua in the Roman...

Ancient vessel may refer to: Amphora, an ancient crockery, a kind of vase Trireme, an ancient ship This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

Ancient Shores is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack McDevitt, published in 1996. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in...

Ancient Chinese may refer to: The people—particularly Han people—of ancient China Old Chinese or Archaic Chinese, the ancient form of spoken Chinese Classical...

Ancient Kyiv (Ukrainian: Стародавній Київ, romanized: Starodavnii Kyiv [stɐroˈdɑu̯n⁽ʲ⁾ij ˈkɪjiu̯]) is a historic reserve of the city of Kyiv, Ukraine...

Sexual attitudes and behaviors in ancient Rome are indicated by art, literature, and inscriptions, and to a lesser extent by archaeological remains such...

related to the law. Historically, the role of lawyers can be traced back to ancient civilizations such as Greece and Rome. Depending on the country, the education...

Ancient Secrets is a series on the National Geographic Channel. As the show unfolds, it attempts to investigate the world's most enduring – and infamous...

Μακεδονία, Makedonía), also called Macedon (/ˈmæsɪdɒn/ MASS-ih-don), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became...

Ancient Wisdom is a Swedish atmospheric black metal band. They have released five albums on Avantgarde Music. Ancient Wisdom was started in 1992 as a...

Ancient Myth is a Japanese symphonic metal band formed in Tokyo in 2002 by drummer Mittu. After joining in 2008, vocalist Michal took over as leader of...

An ancient document, in the law of evidence, refers to both a means of authentication for a piece of documentary evidence, and an exception to the hearsay...

Ancient VVisdom is an American rock band described as occult or gothic rock, folk metal and neofolk. They, among others, released two albums on Magic...

Ancient Land is the twelfth studio album and eleventh home video release by the group Celtic Woman. The album was recorded at Real World Studios, Herbert...

In mathematics, an ancient solution to a differential equation is a solution that can be extrapolated backwards to all past times, without singularities...

ancient language is any language originating in times that may be referred to as ancient. There are no formal criteria for deeming a language ancient...

Ancient Bards is an Italian symphonic power metal band, formed in January 2006 by keyboard player Daniele Mazza. The project, originated in the mind of...

Ancient Discoveries is a television series that premiered on December 21, 2003, on the History Channel. The program focused on ancient technologies. The...

An ancient borough was a historic unit of lower-tier local government in England and Wales. The ancient boroughs covered only important towns and were...

An ancient monument can refer to any early or historical manmade structure or architecture. Certain ancient monuments are of cultural importance for nations...

Ancient Dreams is the third studio album by Swedish doom metal band Candlemass, released in 1988 and reissued in 2001 by Powerline Records with a bonus...

writers, who often grouped the Celts as barbarian tribes. They followed an ancient Celtic religion overseen by druids. The Celts were often in conflict with...

The cuisine of ancient Egypt encompasses the food and drink consumed by the ancient Egyptians throughout a span of over three thousand years, which retained...

throughout time. They have been created by nearly every civilization, ancient and modern. Early cultures often associated the sexual act with supernatural...

The Ancient Tenements are the oldest surviving farms in Dartmoor, England, established during the 14th century and possibly earlier. In Mediaeval Britain...

marks, boxes, or other symbols. Babylon (/ˈbæbɪlɒn/ BAB-il-on) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within...

In ancient Greece, deities were regarded as anthropomorphic, immortal, and powerful. They were conceived of as persons rather than abstract concepts,...

An Ancient Muse is the seventh studio album of the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt. It was released...

The Ancient is a 2008 fantasy novel by R. A. Salvatore. The setting is Salvatore's world of Corona, The Ancient is the sequel to The Highwayman. It is...

This article covers the history of ancient Portugal. It includes the period between Prehistoric Iberia and the County of Portugal established in the mid-ninth...

athletic conference. At times, they have also been referred to as the "Ancient Eight". The eight members of the Ivy League are Brown University, Columbia...

Ancient planter (sometimes called ancient colony man) was a term applied to an early settler who migrated to the Colony of Virginia before 1616 (O.S.)...

The following is a list of ancient physicians who were known to have practised, contributed, or theorised about medicine in some form between the 30th...

succeeded by late antiquity. It comprises the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, known together as the Greco-Roman world, which played...

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...

The archaeological site of ancient Kymissala is located about 70 km southwest of Rhodes city, and today falls within the limits of the Municipality of...

himself the first emperor of China shortly afterwards. The ruins of the ancient city were excavated in 1926 by Japanese archaeologists and in 1964 by Chinese...

Lists of ancient monarchs are organized by region and peoples, and include rulers recorded in ancient history (3000 BC – 1700 AD) and mythology. Lists...

The following is a list of regions of Ancient Anatolia, also known as "Asia Minor." The names reflect changes to languages, settlements and polities from...

Ancient tree may refer to: Trees in ancient woodland Veteran trees, individual trees noteworthy for their age Ancient Tree Inventory, a project of the...

Ancient Title (April 19, 1970 – September 1, 1981) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. Foaled in California, he was bred by William and...

Ancient Warriors is a 1994 20-part documentary series from the Discovery Channel. Each 30 minute episode looks at a major fighting people or force and...

"Ancient Engines" is a science fiction short story by American writer Michael Swanwick, published in 1999. It was nominated for the 2000 Hugo Award for...

a British author known for promoting pseudoscientific explanations of ancient civilisations and hypothetical lost lands. Hancock argues that an advanced...

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals that formed an integral part of ancient Egyptian culture. It centered...

Ancient Anatolia may refer to: Prehistory of Anatolia Iron Age Anatolia Classical Anatolia Ancient kingdoms of Anatolia Anatolian peoples This disambiguation...

by comparison with Ancient Egyptian art they are often more vivid, but less naturalistic. In comparison with the art of other ancient cultures there is...

Ancient Estonia is the prehistoric period in the history of Estonia that concerns the emergence of human settlement in the area of what is now modern-day...

sales division, Ancient Faith Store, it operates several media outlets: Ancient Faith Radio (AFR), Ancient Faith Publishing (AFP), Ancient Faith Kids (AFKids)...

may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Sparta was a prominent ancient Greek polis in Laconia. In classical antiquity, the state was known as...

Ancient Society is an 1877 book by the American anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan. Building on the data about kinship and social organization presented in...

Ancient Fistory is a 1953 American animated short film directed by Seymour Kneitel and starring Jack Mercer in multiple roles (including Popeye). The...

Ancient Futures: Lessons from Ladakh for a Globalizing World, originally published with the subtitle Learning From Ladakh, is a book by Helena Norberg-Hodge...

Ancient Light is a 2012 novel by John Banville. First published on 7 July 2012, the novel concludes a trilogy concerning Alexander Cleave and his daughter...

The ancient antwren (Herpsilochmus gentryi) is a species of tropical bird in the family Thamnophilidae. It is primarily found in terra firme forests of...

Ancient Inventions was a BBC historical documentary series released in 1998. It was presented by former Monty Python member Terry Jones and looked at...

The Ancient Economy is an influential book about the economic system of classical antiquity written by the classicist Moses I. Finley. It was originally...

of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture...

The Ancient & Arcane is the debut studio album by American electronic music producer Varien. The album was released on August 5, 2015, by independent...

Religion in ancient Rome consisted of varying imperial and provincial religious practices, which were followed both by the Roman people as well as those...

Age. These concepts originated for describing Iron Age Europe and the ancient Near East. In the archaeology of the Americas, a five-period system is...

the development of material culture among ancient societies in Asia, the Near East and Europe. An ancient civilisation or culture is deemed part of the...

1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE. Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of the three early civilisations of the...

fabrics which appeared in the Middle East during the late Stone Age. From ancient times to the present day, methods of textile production have continually...

Ancient Law is a book by Henry James Sumner Maine. It was first published in octavo in 1861. The book went through twelve editions during the lifetime...

Ancient is an album by Japanese new age artist, Kitarō, which was released in 2001. The album was nominated for 44th Grammy Awards New Age Best Album...

Ancient Chernihiv (Ukrainian: Національний державний архітектурно-історичний заповідник «Чернігів стародавній», romanized: Chernihiv starodavnii) is the...

after the historical era began, including ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the Phoenicians, ancient China, ancient Japan, Pre-Islamic Arabia, early modern...

Ancient Journeys: A Vision of the New World is an album by German cross-cultural new-age band Cusco, released in 2000. Released three years after the...

Ancient proteins are complex mixtures and the term palaeoproteomics is used to characterise the study of proteomes in the past. Ancients proteins have...

from pre-dynastic and early-dynastic ancient Egypt c. 6000 years ago, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published...

Ancient Legends is a Chinese television series based on the myths and legends associated with the origins of the Chinese civilisation. It is based on...

Shriners International, formally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (AAONMS), is an American Masonic society. Founded...

Ancient Mexico was an exhibition by William Bullock of casts of Aztec artefacts and both copies and originals of Aztec codices, held in 1824 in the Egyptian...

site of Ancient Pap (also known as Balandtepa) is located on the bank of the Syr Darya River in the Namangan Region of Uzbekistan. The ancient site includes...

Art of ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric...

Pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged relationship between an older male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in...

The role of women in ancient warfare differed from culture to culture. There have been various historical accounts of females participating in battle...

Ancient Tones is an album by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, released through Skaggs Family Records on January 26, 1999. In 2000, the album won the...

the Egyptian Empire, refers to ancient Egypt between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC. This period of ancient Egyptian history covers the Eighteenth...

Ancient Mysteries is a television series that was produced by FilmRoos and originally broadcast on A&E between January 7, 1994 and May 3, 1998 with reruns...

have crossed the sea as early as 700,000 to one million years ago. In ancient maritime history, evidence of maritime trade between civilizations dates...

In ancient Egypt, cats were represented in social and religious scenes dating as early as 1980 BC. Several ancient Egyptian deities were depicted and...

Anciently, Magnesia (Ancient Greek: Μαγνησία) was a region of Ancient Greece, eventually absorbed by ancient Thessaly. Originally inhabited by the Magnetes...

garment lapels or binding with sashes at the waist.[citation needed] From ancient times, the ru upper garments of hanfu were typically worn wrapped over...

The Ancient Law (German: Das alte Gesetz) is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by E. A. Dupont and starring Henny Porten, Ruth Weyher and Hermann...

In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient Northeast Asian (ANA), also known as Amur ancestry, is the name given to an ancestral component that represents the...

Ancient Electrons is the first full length album by musical artist Analog Rebellion (formerly PlayRadioPlay!). It was released on January 26, 2010, alongside...

and at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she graduated with a degree in ancient and modern history. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of...

Ancient Artifacts is the first full-length studio album by Orange County punk rock band D.I., released in 1985. The songs “O.C. Life” and “Falling Out”...

Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised...

The Ancient Future Trilogy is a set of fantasy novels by Traci Harding. The story follows a 20th-century Australian woman who is transported to 6th century...

Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. Since the term...

This timeline of ancient history lists historical events of the documented ancient past from the beginning of recorded history until the Early Middle...

Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC. It dealt with a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, epistemology, mathematics, political...

Brother-sister incest was a common practice among the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, both during dynastic and Hellenistic times. Marriages and children between...

Xenophobia (from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos) 'strange, foreign, or alien' and φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') is the fear or dislike of people who are perceived...

Percomorpha (from Latin perca 'perch' and Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ) 'shape, appearance') is an extremely large and diverse clade of ray-finned fish...

Proscriptions in ancient Rome were official lists of individuals declared enemies of the state, whose property was confiscated and whose lives were forfeit...

Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge. pp. 252–254. ISBN 978-1-1346-6525-9.; Bard, Kathryn A. (2015). An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. John...

The Ancient Magus' Bride (Japanese: 魔法使いの嫁, Hepburn: Mahō Tsukai no Yome) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kore Yamazaki. It is serialized...

Ancient Greek cuisine was characterized by its frugality for most, reflecting agricultural hardship, but a great diversity of ingredients was known, and...

The term Ancient East Eurasian, alternatively also known as East Eurasian or Eastern Eurasian, is used in population genomics to describe the genetic...

century BC its coastal areas were populated by ancient Greeks. Later, the region was conquered by the ancient Romans. It was then conquered by the Byzantines...

The Ancient Macedonian calendar is a lunisolar calendar that was in use in ancient Macedon in the 1st millennium BCE. It consisted of 12 synodic lunar...

Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. References to these artists in ancient Chinese literature have preserved records of their incredible achievements...

Ancient Rites is a Belgian black metal band formed in 1988. Initially, the lineup consisted of guitar players Johan and Phillip, drummer Stefan, and Gunther...

extends at least as far back as the first written records recovered from ancient civilizations. Historical studies have included virtually every nation...

Ancient Future may refer to: Ancient Future (group), a musical ensemble popular in the world music genre Ancient Future (album), an album by American band...

cultural relations. The first evidence of such long-distance trade is in the ancient world. During the Uruk period, Guillermo Algaze has argued that trade relations...

of and topical guide to ancient Greece: Ancient Greece – Towns of ancient Greece List of ancient Greek cities Regions of ancient Greece Peloponnese Achaea...

The ancient Olympic Games (Ancient Greek: τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta Olympia), or the ancient Olympics, were a series of athletic competitions among representatives...

Yahweh was an ancient Semitic deity in the southeastern ancient Levant that became the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel-Samaria and Judah...

capital of early medieval Armenia. It was situated north of the previous ancient capital of Armenia, the city of Artaxata, along the banks of the Metsamor...

Ithaca (/ˈɪθəkə/ ITH-ə-kə), also Ithaki (Greek: Ιθάκη [iˈθaci]) or Ithaka (Ancient Greek: Ἰθάκη Ithákē [itʰákɛː]), is a Greek island located in the Ionian...

Ancient Celtic religion, commonly known as Celtic paganism, was the religion of the ancient Celtic peoples of Europe. Because there are no extant native...

civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period. Known by its ancient temples and glyphs (script), the civilization is also noted for its art...

an important centre during the Bronze Age Cycladic Culture and in the Ancient Greek Archaic Period. The island is famous as a source of emery, a rock...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, also known as the Seven Wonders of the World or simply the Seven Wonders, is a list of seven notable structures...

The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic people who inhabited city-states in Canaan along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in...

The Ancient is a novel by R. A. Salvatore. The name may also refer to: "The Ancient (poem)", a poem by Mary Gilmore (1917) "The Ancient", from Yes's Tales...

Five ancient Greek novels or ancient Greek romances survive complete from antiquity: Chariton's Callirhoe (mid-1st century), Achilles Tatius' Leucippe...

Homosexuality in ancient Egypt is a disputed subject within Egyptology. Historians and egyptologists alike debate what kinds of views the ancient Egyptians'...

Senaveratna, John M. (1930). The Story of the Sinhalese from the Most Ancient Times Up to the End of "the Mahavansa" Or Great Dynasty: Vijaya to Maha...

The priesthood of ancient Israel was the class of male individuals, who, according to the Hebrew Bible, were patrilineal descendants from Aaron (the elder...

Records in the chapter house of Westminster Abbey, in which were stored the ancient records of the Exchequer (including Domesday Book), as well as various...

This is a list of ancient great powers. A great power is a nation or state that through economic, political or military strength is able to exert power...

found dating from 5400 to 5000 BC in Hajji Firuz Tepe in Iran, 3150 BC in ancient Egypt, 3000 BC in Babylon, 2000 BC in pre-Hispanic Mexico and 1500 BC in...

century BC and the present. Additionally, Modern and Ancient Greek now use different diacritics, with ancient Greek using the polytonic orthography and modern...

Pydna (Greek: Πύδνα) was an ancient Greek city in what is now the regional unit of Pieria, Central Macedonia, Greece. It is an important place in the...

Clothing in ancient Greece refers to clothing starting from the Aegean bronze age (3000 BCE) to the Hellenistic period (31 BCE). Clothing in ancient Greece...

Ancient synagogues in the Land of Israel are synagogues and their remains in the Land of Israel/Palestine region (today's Israel, Palestinian, and the...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Artemis (/ˈɑːrtəməs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of hunting...

Ancient Greek literature encompasses the literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire...

Order of Ancient Maccabeans (also Maccabaeans) is an Anglo-Jewish society. The order is a friendly society established in 1891, and registered on 8 May...

The Ancient Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard. It is the fourteenth of the eighteen overall stories Haggard wrote about the hunter Allan Quatermain...

King's Field IV, released in North America as King's Field: The Ancient City, is a 2001 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware for the PlayStation...

Ancient Hebrew (ISO 639-3 code hbo) is a blanket term for pre-modern varieties of the Hebrew language: Biblical Hebrew (including the use of Tiberian...

This is a list of ancient Macedonians, an ancient Greek tribe inhabiting the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula. Makednos Parmenion – Strategos...

ancient temple of Apollo on the site of the church of Panayia Yeraniofora. The second-largest town is Artemonas, thought to be named after an ancient...

In Ancient Greek, all nouns are classified according to grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter) and are used in a number (singular, dual, or...

The history of Corsica in ancient times was characterised by contests for control of the island among various foreign powers. The successors of the Neolithic...

Carthage (Arabic: قرطاج, Qarṭāj) was an ancient city in northern Africa founded by the legendary Phoenician queen Dido on the eastern side of the Lake...

The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is a rite within the broader context of Freemasonry. It is the most widely practiced Rite in the...

Baking was a popular profession and source of food in ancient Rome. Many ancient Roman baking techniques were developed due to Greek bakers who traveled...

acknowledge six cradles of civilization: Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient India and Ancient China are believed to be the earliest in Afro-Eurasia,...

Ancient Rome is a trio of almost identical paintings by Italian artist Giovanni Paolo Panini, produced as pendant paintings to Modern Rome for his patron...

Ancient Egyptian deities are the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Egypt. The beliefs and rituals surrounding these gods formed the core of ancient...

The question of the race of the people of ancient Egypt was raised historically as a product of the early racial concepts of the 18th and 19th centuries...

Ancient Chinese states (traditional Chinese: 諸侯國; simplified Chinese: 诸侯国; pinyin: Zhūhóu guó) were dynastic or autonomous polities of Ancient China within...

The Ancient Engineers is a 1963 science book by L. Sprague de Camp, one of his most popular works. It was first published by Doubleday and has been reprinted...

'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities. A rarer form, 'ila, represents the predicate form...

rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (/pərˈsɛfəniː/ per-SEF-a-nee;...

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography is a book by Simon Singh, published in 1999 by Fourth Estate and Doubleday...

Ancient Caves is a 2020 American giant-screen documentary film directed by Jonathan Bird. The film explores underwater cave systems and scientific research...

Fables, Ancient and Modern is a collection of translations of classical and medieval poetry by John Dryden interspersed with some of his own works. Published...

the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, ruled by Thutmose III, was ancient Africa's major force upon incorporating Nubia and the ancient city-states of the...

This an alphabetical list of ancient Romans, including citizens of ancient Rome remembered in history. Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R...

The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus is a theatre in the Greek city of Epidaurus, located on the southeast end of the sanctuary dedicated to the ancient Greek...

Ancient Kings is an Armenian historical drama television series. The series premiered on Armenia Premium on November 5, 2016. The cinematographer of the...

Rock Sinhala: සීගිරිය, Tamil: சிகிரியா/சிங்ககிரி, /ˈsiːɡɪrɪjə/) is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matale District near the town of...

An Ancient Tale may refer to: An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God, a 2003 Polish film An Ancient Tale (novel), an 1876 novel by Polish writer Józef...

were four basic types of fishponds developed within the Ahupua'a known in ancient Hawaii. The four types of fishponds were freshwater taro fishponds (loko...

Ancient Meitei may refer to: A person belonging to Meitei ethnicity, who lived in ancient times Of or relating to Meitei culture in ancient times Ancient...

The nomen of ancient Egyptian pharaohs was one of the "great five names". It was introduced by king Djedefre, third pharaoh of the 4th Dynasty, as an...

Ancient Conquest is a board wargame published by Excalibre Games in 1975 that simulates the clash of empires during the Bronze Age. Ancient Conquest is...

Ancient Greek clubs (Greek: ἑταιρείαι, hetaireiai) were associations of ancient Greeks who were united by a common interest or goal. The earliest reference...

pronunciation: [kó̞.(ɟ̟͡)ʑì.k̟ʲì, kò̞.(ɟ̟͡)ʑí.-], "Records of Ancient Matters" or "An Account of Ancient Matters"), also sometimes read as Furukotofumi or Furukotobumi...

Ancient to the Future: Dreaming of the Masters Series Vol. 1 is a 1987 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago released on the Japanese DIW label. It features...

in the Americas by year of foundation (includes ancient native sites) List of cities of the ancient Near East List of largest cities throughout history...

an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. They traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity...

animal figurines from Tepe Sarab in Kermanshah province among many other ancient artefacts. The south-western part of Iran was part of the Fertile Crescent...

2017. Manning, Charlotte Speir. Ancient and Mediæval India. Vol. 2. ISBN 978-0-543-92943-3. Juleff, G. (1996). "An ancient wind powered iron smelting technology...

Ancient Halych (Ukrainian: Національний заповідник «Давній Галич», romanized: "Davnii Halych") is the National Architecture-Historical Reserve located...

Ancient Trader is a turn-based strategy video game developed by the Slovak studio 4Kids Games. It was released in 2010 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox Live...

Latin: patricius) were originally a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome. The distinction was highly significant in the Roman Kingdom and the...

900 to 612 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire asserted control over much of the ancient Near East. Subsequently, the Babylonians, who had long been overshadowed...

world searching for alternative ways of healing, which leads him to the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme. Strange becomes his student and learns to be...

Հայկական դիցաբանություն, romanized: haykakan dicʻabanutʻyun) originated in ancient Indo-European mythology, specifically Proto-Armenian, and incorporated...

neighbor is the municipality of Antiparos, located to the southwest. In ancient Greece, the island was home to the city-state of Paros. Historically, Paros...

Myrrh (/mɜːr/, MUR; from an unidentified ancient Semitic language, مر; from Arabic, מוֹר /mor/; from Hebrew, see § Etymology) is a gum-resin extracted...

romanized: šumeru) comes from the Akkadian name for the "Sumerians", the ancient non-Semitic-speaking inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia. In their inscriptions...

Ancient Greek technology developed during the 5th century BC, continuing up to and including the Roman period, and beyond. Inventions that are credited...

An Ancient Observer is the 8th album by Tigran Hamasyan released 31 March 2017. Two of the tracks on the album are developments of traditional Armenian...

Heliopolis (Jwnw, Iunu; Ancient Egyptian: 𓉺𓏌𓊖, romanized: jwnw, lit. 'the Pillars'; Coptic: ⲱⲛ, Biblical Hebrew: אֹן, romanized: ʾOn; Greek: Ἡλιούπολις...

Lays of Ancient Rome is an 1842 collection of narrative poems, or lays, by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Four of these recount heroic episodes from early...

An Ancient Peace is a 2015 science fiction novel by Tanya Huff, published by the British publishing firm Titan Books with a cover made by cover artist...

Ancient Greek art is the visual and applied arts, as well as the architecture, produced by the Hellenes or Greek peoples from the start of the Iron Age...

Ancient Egyptian deities were an integral part of ancient Egyptian religion and were worshiped for millennia. Many of them ruled over natural and social...

In Greek mythology, Calypso (/kəˈlɪpsoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Καλυψώ, romanized: Kalypsṓ, lit. 'she who conceals') was a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia...

The Epic of Gilgamesh (/ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ/) is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia that is the world's oldest surviving example of narrative literature. The literary...

Ancient Mesopotamian religion encompasses the religious beliefs (concerning the gods, creation and the cosmos, the origin of humanity, and so forth) and...

the Mesopotamian states of Sumer, Akkad and Assyria, followed closely by Ancient Egypt and the Levantine state of Ebla began using arithmetic, algebra and...

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Helios (/ˈhiːliəs, -ɒs/; Ancient Greek: Ἥλιος pronounced [hɛ̌ːlios], lit. 'Sun'; Homeric Greek: Ἠέλιος) is the...

The Ancient Tumbler is a breed of fancy pigeon. Ancient Tumblers, along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons, are all descendants from the rock...

Kapilavastu Kapilavastu was an ancient city in the eastern Gangetic plains of the Indian subcontinent which was the capital of the clan gaṇasaṅgha or...

elite circles, involving an adult man with an adolescent boy (marriages in Ancient Greece between men and women were also age structured, with men in their...

physical education to the ancient Greeks and Romans has been historically unique. There were two forms of education in ancient Greece: formal and informal...

The former Catholic diocese of Mirepoix, in south-west France, was created in 1317 by Pope John XXII from the diocese of Pamiers. It existed until the...

than pottery) from ancient cultures, with sculpture from said perishable materials almost never surviving. In addition, most ancient sculpture was painted...

The Ancient Priors is a medieval timber-framed hall house on the High Street in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. It was built in approximately...

Cadmus and Phoenix, and Carthage's founder Dido (Elissa). The city has many ancient sites, including the Tyre Hippodrome, and was added as a whole to the list...

The Ancient Highway is a 1925 American silent adventure film directed by Irvin Willat and written by James Shelley Hamilton and Eve Unsell based upon...

terminology, names of individual cities and towns are called astionyms (from Ancient Greek ἄστυ 'city or town' and ὄνομα 'name'). Urban geography deals both...

scientific and mathematical principles, theatre, and the Olympic Games. The Ancient Greeks were organised into independent city-states, or poleis (singular...

Ancient accounts of Homer include numerous passages in which archaic and classical Greek poets and prose authors mention or allude to Homer. In addition...

of Aarhus List of bishops of Aarhus Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ancient See of Aarhus" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company...

This is a list of ancient Jains. Krishnamachari, Suganthy (12 October 2017), "On how Kongu Nadu was a Jain bastion", The Hindu Prakash, BV (20 May 2014)...

towns are Andros, Gavrio, Batsi, and Ormos Korthiou. Palaeopolis, the ancient capital, was built into a steep hillside, and the breakwater of its harbor...

major roles in many religions, including those of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Israel, and ancient Rome. In some regions, especially most states...

three aims: to protect ancient woodland which is rare, unique and irreplaceable, to promote the restoration of damaged ancient woodland, and to plant...

the Ordos Plateau in the east and the Iranian Plateau in the south. The ancient Iranian peoples who emerged after the 1st millennium BC include the Alans...

navigation, spiritual and religious practices, and agricultural planning. Ancient astronomers observed and charted the skies in an effort to learn about...

Sanxingdui located in what is now Sichuan is believed to be the site of a major ancient city, of a previously unknown Bronze Age culture (between 2000 and 1200 BC)...

Sphinx. All were built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, between c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC. The site also includes several temples...

The Ancient Trilogy (Polish: Trylogia antyczna) is a Polish literary trilogy by Karol Bunsch [pl] about Alexander the Great, consisting of the novels...

In Ancient Greece, the symposium (Ancient Greek: συμπόσιον, sympósion, from συμπίνειν, sympínein, 'to drink together') was the part of a banquet that took...

developed for an ancient version of contemporary Zapotecan languages, but its application to language varieties other than "Ancient Zapotec" encouraged...

concubines. Concubinage was also common in Meiji Japan as a status symbol. Ancient Near Eastern societies used concubinage for reproduction. The practice...

refer to: User (ancient Egyptian official), an ancient Egyptian nomarch (governor) of the Eighth Dynasty User or Useramen, an ancient Egyptian vizier...

Ys, titled on-screen Ancient Ys Vanished: Omen, is a 1987 action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom. It is the first installment in the Ys series...

tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular...

(/ˈhiːsiəd/ HEE-see-əd or /ˈhɛsiəd/ HEH-see-əd; Ancient Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos; fl. c. 700 BC) was an Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active...

1300 to 800 BC. The newcomers were genetically most closely related to ancient individuals from Gaul. The authors describe this as a "plausible vector...

Ancient Conquest II is a 1978 board game published by Excalibre Games. Ancient Conquest II is a game in which a large, twenty‑turn campaign sees Macedonia...

"Would ancient India have supported Section 377?". Rediff. Retrieved 30 December 2023. Raveenthiran, Venkatachalam (November 2011). "Knowledge of ancient Hindu...

symbols. Zeus (/zjuːs/, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) is the supreme deity of the Greek pantheon. He is a sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology...

of Palestine (region) History of ancient Israel and Judah History of Gaza City History of Israel History of the ancient Levant History of the Gaza Strip...

romanized: Akkadû(m)) is an East Semitic language that is attested in ancient Mesopotamia (Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa, Babylonia) from the mid-third...

Ostra was an ancient Roman town near the modern town of Ostra Vetere. The Roman town was inhabited from the 3rd century BC until the 6th century AD. Pliny...

The Ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is an ancient Greek agora. It is located to the northwest of the Acropolis, and bounded...

The Ancient British Church was a British religious movement supposedly founded in the 19th century by Jules Ferrette (Mar Julius) and Richard Williams...

valley. Parts of Nubia, particularly Lower Nubia, were at times part of ancient Pharaonic Egypt and at other times a rival state representing parts of...

as Ancestral Pueblo peoples or the Basketmaker-Pueblo culture, were an ancient Native American culture of Pueblo peoples spanning the present-day Four...

The Ancient diocese of Cartagena existed before the Muslim conquest of Spain. There is a tradition that the diocese of was established very early, around...

Ancient Evil is a 1998 video game developed and published by Silver Lightning Software. Ancient Evil is a dungeon challenge in which adventurers enter...

(or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. It represents...

into Spanish, providing modern historians with valuable insights into ancient cultures and knowledge. Before the development of archaeology in the 19th...

Auctions in ancient Greece were events in which goods were sold through an open bidding process. Participants competed by offering higher bids, with the...

cuisine that has its origins in the ancient Near East culture of the Fertile Crescent. Tablets found in ancient ruins in Iraq show recipes prepared in...

a powerful and awe-inspiring creature. Dragon-like creatures appear in ancient Mesopotamian art, where they could be hostile or benevolent. In East Asia...

internal organs have provided storage vessels for a range of foodstuffs since ancient times, it is probable that the process of cheese making was discovered...

Various ancient Greek calendars began in most states of ancient Greece between autumn and winter except for the Attic calendar, which began in summer...

and three three-part series, Treasures of Ancient Rome, Treasures of Ancient Egypt, and Treasures of Ancient Greece, for BBC Four. Sooke is chief art critic...

Ancient Anguish, abbreviated AA, is a fantasy-themed MUD, a text-based online role-playing game. Founded in 1991 by Balz "Zor" Meierhans and Olivier "Drake"...

Sinitic *Mγag (mage or shaman). The Old Persian form seems to have permeated ancient Semitic languages as the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic magosh, the Aramaic...

The Ancient Khmer Highway was a 225 km (140 mi) roadway going northwest between Angkor (in Cambodia) and Phimai (Vimayapura) (now in Thailand).[citation...

necessary, or convenient. Hellenistic culture thus represents a fusion of the ancient Greek world with that of the Western Asian, Northeastern African, and Southwestern...

The concept of engineering has existed since ancient times as humans devised fundamental inventions such as the pulley, lever, and wheel. Each of these...

Greek architecture, and its sacred importance throughout Ancient Greece. Investigation of ancient stone huts found on the island indicate that it has been...

The Ancient Ram Inn is a Grade II* listed building and a former pub located in Wotton-under-Edge, a market town within the Stroud district of Gloucestershire...

Jewish messianism promised a messianic redeemer descended from Israel's ancient King David. Those who followed Jesus, called disciples, saw him as that...

Imprisonment in ancient Rome was not a sentence under Roman law. Incarceration (publica custodia) in facilities such as the Tullianum was intended to...

The Ancient Art Archive (AAA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, visual documentation, and sharing of prehistoric works of art...

Philosophical interest in the human mind and behavior dates back to the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Persia, Greece, China, and India. Psychology as...

Pharos of Alexandria, was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (280–247 BC). It has...

another common theme in ancient religious sacrifices, such as sacrifices to the Aztec god of agriculture Xipe Totec. In ancient Japan, legends talk about...

Phthiotic Thebes or Thessalian Thebes, an ancient city at Nea Anchialos Thebae (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia, now in Turkey Thebes (Ionia), in...

(/ˌnɛfərˈtiːti/; c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband...

In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) refers to an ancestral component that represents the lineage of the people of the Mal'ta–Buret'...

"designation". The protection provided to scheduled monuments is given under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which is a different law from...

Ios (also spelled Io or Nio; Greek: Ίος, Greek pronunciation: [ˈi.os]; Ancient Greek: Ἴος [í.os]; locally Nios, Νιός) is a Greek island in the Cyclades...

figure, is an enduring tradition in Western art. It was a preoccupation of Ancient Greek art, and after a semi-dormant period in the Middle Ages returned...

Same (/ˈseɪmi/; Greek: Σάμη), also Samos (Σάμος), is an Ancient Greek name of a Homeric island in the Ionian Sea, near Ithaca and Cephalonia. In Homer's...

Look up Ancient Rome in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ancient Rome was the city, state, and civilisation of Rome during antiquity. Ancient Rome may...

Epirote Greek: Ἄπειρος, Ápeiros; Attic Greek: Ἤπειρος, Ḗpeiros) was an ancient Greek kingdom, and later republic, located in the geographical region of...

monk Dhammakitti).[citation needed] These are ancient sources that cover the histories of the powerful ancient Sinhalese kingdoms of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa...

relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece. The shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium BC...

Latin: Britanni, Welsh: Brythoniaid), also known as Celtic Britons or ancient Britons, were the Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least...

Ancient Chinese glass refers to all types of glass manufactured in China prior to the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). In Chinese history, glass played a peripheral...

clothing, and in a number of ancient cultures, the athletic and/or cultist nudity of men and boys was a natural concept. In ancient Greece, nudity became associated...

publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ancient See of Hamar". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company...

Stagirus (/-rəs/), or Stageira (Greek: Στάγειρα or Στάγειρος) was an ancient Greek city located near the eastern coast of the peninsula of Chalkidice...

Cynicism (Ancient Greek: κυνισμός) is a school of thought in ancient Greek philosophy, originating in the Classical period and extending into the Hellenistic...

Vaishali, Vesali or Vaiśālī was an ancient city and today an archaeological site located north of Patna in present-day Bihar, India. It is also a Jain...

statues across the Middle East dating as far back as ancient times. In his book Iran in the Ancient East, the archaeologist and Iranologist Ernst Herzfeld...

newadvent.org. Retrieved 22 January 2023. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ancient See of Linköping". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company...

Drugs in ancient Rome were used for a variety of purposes. Cannabis and opium were used as medication to treat conditions such as insomnia or earaches...

The Ancient footprints of Acahualinca (Spanish pronunciation: [akawaˈliŋka]; Spanish: Huellas de Acahualinca) exist in Managua, Nicaragua near the southern...

Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and...

In ancient Rome, a tintinnabulum (less often tintinnum) was a wind chime or assemblage of bells. A tintinnabulum often took the form of a bronze ithyphallic...

broadcasting television history. The intention of the program was to reveal how ancient Japan was influenced by the Silk Road trade route. The documentary was...

Annunaki, Anunna, Ananaki and other variations) are a group of deities of the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians. In the earliest Sumerian...

commonly called simply UNIX (in caps) or the UNIX Time-Sharing System. Ancient UNIX is any early release of the Unix code base prior to Unix System III...

in ancient Mesopotamia. Wedding ceremonies, as well as dowry and divorce, can be traced back to Mesopotamia and Babylonia. According to ancient Hebrew...

taking place at different speeds, and it includes the erosion of some ancient institutions and the beginning of medieval ones. The concept of late antiquity...

the reverse is known as tails. The first metal coins – invented in the ancient Greek world and disseminated during the Hellenistic period – were precious...

Heracles (/ˈhɛrəkliːz/ Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, lit. 'glory/fame of Hera'), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine...

usually called Virgil or Vergil (/ˈvɜːrdʒɪl/ VUR-jil) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous...

He is a ufologist and a promoter of the ancient astronauts hypothesis. He is host and producer of Ancient Aliens, a History Channel series. Tsoukalos...

predating the local advent of writing by several centuries. Extensive ancient literature in the Vedic Sanskrit language has survived into the modern...

The Bishop of Dunwich is an episcopal title which was first used by an Anglo-Saxon bishop between the seventh and ninth centuries and is currently used...

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, romanized: elliniká [eliniˈka] ; Ancient Greek: ἑλληνική, romanized: hellēnikḗ [helːɛːnikɛ́ː]) is an Indo-European language...

reformation of mankind" through a science "built on esoteric truths of the ancient past", which, "concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature...

Cori (ancient Cora) is a city and comune in the province of Latina, in the Lazio region of central Italy. Cora was well developed in the age of the expansion...

Hundreds of ancient stone religious monuments lie on the island of Java. Known as candi in Indonesian, they date from the early classical period of Javanese...

Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal...

was republished by Knopf in 2003. Brisingr—meaning "fire" in Alagaësia's Ancient Language (which was inspired to a degree by Old Norse)—was published on...

follows Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy, who must stop Lyric, the last Ancient, from acquiring the Chaos Crystals, while battling Doctor Eggman, Metal...

Balkans, according to Papazoglu. The ancient Greek name Ἑλλήσποντος (Hellēspontos) means "Sea of Helle", and was the ancient name of the narrow strait. It was...

Ancient Egyptian clothing comprises the garments, jewelry, footwear, and wigs worn by individuals in Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period (prior...

Alexandria Shipyard. The city also has a large financial sector, and its ancient port Alexandria is one of the busiest ports in the country. Alexandria...

AD. The Pantheon in Rome, finished in the early 2nd century AD, has an ancient Roman height record from floor to top of 43.45 m (142.6 ft), which exactly...

Slavery in ancient Egypt existed at least since the Old Kingdom period. Discussions of slavery in Pharaonic Egypt are complicated by terminology used...

years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during...

of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek...

Ancient Joe is a comic book series created by Scott Morse and published by Dark Horse Comics in 2002. "Ancient Joe Profile - Dark Horse Comics". Retrieved...

Ancient history in Asia is usually taken to include: West Asia The Ancient Near East History of Iran, from Elam to the Sasanian Empire South Asia History...

Marriage in ancient Greece had less of a basis in personal relationships and more in social responsibility, however the available historical records on...

Cotta or Cotte was an ancient town built by Romans in the 1st century AD, in the province of Mauretania Tingitana, intended to function primarily as a...

developed in the region. Previously regarded as a peripheral region in the ancient Near East, modern academia largely considers the Levant as a center of...

beliefs, activities, and cultural events of the ancient Iranians in ancient Iran are complex matters. The ancient Iranians made references to a combination...

generating the highest opening weekend sales for the franchise to date. The Ancient Gods, a two-part standalone campaign DLC set after the events of the main...

from the 3rd century BC. Its capital Nicomedia was rebuilt on the site of ancient Astacus in 264 BC by Nicomedes I. Bithynia was bequeathed to the Roman...

This article contains Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead...

Ancient Israel and Judah were two Israelite kingdoms that existed in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Their history began with the early appearance...

Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of war, love, and sex. She is also associated with political power, divine law, sensuality, and procreation...

Dancing played an important role in the lives of the ancient Egyptians. However, men and women are never depicted dancing together. The trf was a dance...

deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. In Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as Sēth (Σήθ). Set had a...

has thousands of years of recorded history. A cradle of civilization, Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations in the world. For millennia...

also known as the Israelite religion, was the ancient Semitic religion of the Israelites of ancient Israel and Judah. The Israelite religion appears...

hundred people, and perhaps even fewer. For the purposes of this article, "ancient" Hawaii is defined as the period beginning with the first arrival of human...

Assyria was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization that existed from the 21st to 7th centuries BC which conquered and administered most of West Asia...

Clothing in ancient Rome generally comprised a short-sleeved or sleeveless, knee-length tunic for men and boys, and a longer, usually sleeved tunic for...

The current list of ancient Olympic victors contains all of the known victors of the ancient Olympic Games from the 1st Games in 776 BC up to the 264th...

In archaeogenetics, the term Ancient Paleo-Siberian is the name given to an ancestral component that represents the lineage of the hunter-gatherer people...

Ancient Rome had a variety of ships that played crucial roles in its military, trade, and transportation activities. Rome was preceded in the use of the...

autochthon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In ancient Greece, the concept of autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός autos "self", and χθών chthon "soil";...

Hoplites (/ˈhɒplaɪts/ HOP-lytes; Ancient Greek: ὁπλῖται, romanised: hoplîtai [hoplîːtai̯]) were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily...

marks, boxes, or other symbols. Slavery was a widely accepted practice in ancient Greece. The principal use of slaves was in agriculture, but they were also...

particular culture, the existence of intersex people was known to many ancient and pre-modern cultures and legal systems, and numerous historical accounts...

Slavery played an important role in the society and economy of ancient Rome. Unskilled or low-skill slaves labored in the fields, mines, and mills with...

Freedmen in ancient Rome existed as a distinct social class (liberti or libertini), with former slaves granted freedom and rights through the legal process...

has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Its modern name derives from ancient Greek mythology, specifically the legend of the hero Pelops, who was said...

The Ancient Ship (Chinese: 古船) is a Chinese novel by Zhang Wei, first published in 1986. The novel spans four decades of Chinese history beginning with...

accounting or accountancy can be traced to ancient civilizations. The early development of accounting dates to ancient Mesopotamia, and is closely related to...

the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in ancient Mesopotamia, and what is modern day Iraq. The Sumerians widely regarded...

was easy to cast and shape, workers in the classical world of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome used it extensively to pipe and store water. They also used...

The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names...

consisted of either 5 or 6 chi, while 1 li has consisted of 300 or 360 bu. Ancient Chinese weight units are mostly defined around the jin or catty. Blanks...

The clergy of ancient Egypt was made up of a multitude of priests who worshipped the many gods of the Egyptian religion. In Egyptian thought, the gods...

Emperor Nero also created "bucket brigades" to help fight fires. Most ancient Roman cities had no firefighting organizations or equipment dedicated to...

alphabet. Without proper rendering support, you may see errors in display. Ancient Meitei literature, also termed as Old Manipuri literature, is literature...

The Lukka lands (sometimes Luqqa lands) were an ancient region of Anatolia. They are known from Hittite and Egyptian texts, which viewed them as hostile...

33°53′55″N 35°30′28″E / 33.89861°N 35.50778°E / 33.89861; 35.50778 The Ancient Tell is a Tell in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. In the 1990s, the effort to...

distinction between pure and applied mathematics has existed since at least ancient Greece, the concept was elaborated upon around the year 1900, after the...

Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros; possibly born c. 8th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet who is traditionally credited as...

Aesop (/ˈiːsɒp/ EE-sop; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; c. 620 – 564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with...

disciplines like history or anthropology. In a prominent example from ancient Greece, philosopher Plato, when asked by a friend for a book to understand...

The university of ancient Taxila was a center of Sanskrit and Vedic learning (gurukula) in Taxila, South Asia, Now in present-day Punjab, Pakistan. It...

Sapere Ancient Arabia Database Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Pre-Islamic Arabia: The Hanged Poems, before 622 CE Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient Accounts...

The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the order was founded in...

Ancient American Engineering refers to early American applied scientific and mathematical knowledge used to design and build structures, machines, devices...

way"—is probably derived from the name of this region, a reference to the ancient Spartans who were renowned for their verbal austerity and blunt, often...

monolatristic. They were influenced by neighboring cultures, particularly ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian religious practices. The pantheon was headed...

13 March 2026. Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape". whc.unesco.org. Retrieved...

Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The Kingdom') was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in...

of ancient Roman religion was highly specialized. Its study affords important information about the religion, traditions and beliefs of the ancient Romans...

reading of ancient mythology. In his 1861 book Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World Bachofen...

Hubris (/ˈhjuːbrɪs/; from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris) 'pride, insolence, outrage'), or less frequently hybris (/ˈhaɪbrɪs/), is extreme or excessive pride...

Dan (Biblical Hebrew: דָּן), and older name Laish, is an ancient city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, described as the northernmost city of the Kingdom...

Karkar was an ancient Mesopotamian city in present-day Iraq. Its exact location is unknown (candidate Tell Ĝidr), though based on textual sources it is...

Ancient Iberian coinage began in the fifth century BC, and widespread minting and circulation in the Iberian peninsula began late in the third century...

Guwenhua Jie, Tianjin's Ancient Culture Street, is a pedestrian pathway complex dotted with temple gates and kiosks on the west bank of the Hai River...

danmarkshistorien.dk. Aarhus University. Retrieved 2021-02-04. Taylor, Arthur (1914). "Ancient See of Börglum". The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: The Encyclopedia...

Hymns Ancient and Modern is a hymnal in common use within the Church of England, a result of the efforts of the Oxford Movement. The hymnal was first...

Kum Kum (わんぱく大昔クムクム, Wampaku Ōmukashi Kumu Kumu; "Naughty Ancient Kumukumu") is a Japanese animated television series, consisting of 26 episodes. The...

The Ancient One is a comic book character, the mentor of Doctor Strange. Ancient One may also refer to: Ancient One (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the film...

Kilbeggan Distillery Rock of Cashel Blarney Castle Hook Head Ireland's Ancient East (Irish: Sean-Oirthear na hÉireann) is a destination marketing brand...

on the origins of the Japanese nation recorded in the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters). The myth is as follows: Amaterasu had a brother by the name of...

massage') or nuat phaen boran (นวดแผนโบราณ, [nûad pʰɛ̌ːn bōː.rāːn]; lit. 'ancient-style massage'), though its formal name is nuat thai (นวดไทย, [nûad tʰāj]...

metamorphic rocks. It forms the North American Craton (or Laurentia), the ancient geologic core of the North American continent. Glaciation has left the...

Anubis (/əˈnjuːbɪs/ ; Ancient Greek: Ἄνουβις), also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian (Coptic: ⲁⲛⲟⲩⲡ, romanized: Anoup), is the god...

ruler of Upper Egypt during Naqada III. He was one of the first rulers of Ancient Egypt, and a graffito of him depicts a battle with an unidentified predynastic...

Ancient Dynasty is an album by American pianist Joanne Brackeen recorded in New York City and released on the Tappan Zee label in 1980. AllMusic reviewer...

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and later also North...

been historically important, especially regarding the civilization of Ancient Greece, which inhabited the area around the coast of the Aegean and the...

Sūrōyē) are a distinct ethnic group native to Mesopotamia with roots in ancient Assyria. They speak varieties of Neo-Aramaic, a branch of the Semitic language...

France, Canada, Argentina, Russia, United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany. Ancient Jewish history is known from the Bible, extra-biblical sources, apocrypha...

23.592198°E / 38.433295; 23.592198 Aulis (Ancient Greek: Αὐλίς) was a Greek port town, located in ancient Boeotia in central Greece, at the Euripus Strait...

them as trail markers. In 1569, Luis Monzón[who?] reported having seen ancient ruins in Peru, including the remains of "roads". Although the lines were...

the most ancient of sages, such as Hermes Trismegistus. During the Renaissance, this evolved into the concept of a prisca theologia or "ancient theology"...

Ancient South Arabian (ASA), also known as Old South Arabian (OSA), Epigraphic South Arabian, Ṣayhadic, or Yemenite, is a group of extinct Semitic languages...

her reflection in the water. Xi Shi was from Zhuji, the capital of the Ancient Yue Kingdom. Goujian, the King of Yue, had surrendered to the rival state...

used in fringe science such as cryptozoology, as well as by proponents of ancient astronaut theories, young Earth creationists, and paranormal enthusiasts...

north of West Africa is primarily desert containing the Western Sahara. Ancient West Africa included the Sahara, which became a desert by 3000 BCE. During...

defeated, bringing an end to humanity. Most of what is known about the ancient Aztecs comes from the few codices to survive the Spanish conquest. Their...

historical influence in terms of regularity and practice) defines "pure, ancient Freemasonry" as consisting of the three degrees of Entered Apprentice,...

physical harm they may endure. Pederasty derives from the combination of Ancient Greek: παίδ-, romanized: paid-, lit. 'boy, child (stem)' with ἐραστής,...

always distinguishable), appears in early religious texts. Scholars of the Ancient Near East debate whether certain pieces of legislation regarding sexual...

The ancient Romans were famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments. Technology for bringing running water into cities was developed in the...

Ancient Jewish magic refers to a range of magical practices and techniques employed by Jews from the Second Temple period through the Rabbinic period...

A theatrical culture flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. At its centre was the city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political...

An obelisk (/ˈɒbəlɪsk/; from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos), diminutive of ὀβελός (obelós) ' spit, nail, pointed pillar'), less often spelled obelisque...

Copenhagen. Within the Church of Denmark, the region formerly within the ancient Diocese of Roskilde is today divided between the Diocese of Copenhagen...

in Europe Ancient Greece, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity Greek mythology, a body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greeks Greeks...

Sea Ancient Cyclades Ancient Amorgos Ancient Anafi Ancient Andros Ancient Antiparos Ancient Delos Ancient Folegandros Ancient Ios (island) Ancient Kea...

who were believed to have supernatural power, to denigrated underlings. Ancient Egypt had third-gender categories, including eunuchs. In the Tale of Two...

Thought in Ancient China. Harvard: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-96191-3. Shaughnessy, Edward L. (2023). A Brief History of Ancient China. Bloomsbury...

suggest that the genetic signatures were probably the result of a single ancient contact. They proposed that an initial admixture event between indigenous...

Herculaneum is an ancient Roman town located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under a massive pyroclastic...

than 30 years of experience excavating in Egypt. He is the director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) and has appeared in numerous television...

Greek: Δελφοί [ðelˈfi]), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct in central Greece. It was the seat of Pythia, the major...

regions of ancient Greece were sub-divisions of the Hellenic world as conceived by the ancient Greeks, shown by their presence in the works of ancient historians...

(/ˈɪliəd/ ILL-ee-əd; Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, romanized: Iliás [iːliás]; lit. '[a poem] about Ilion (Troy)') is one of two major surviving ancient Greek epic poems...

capital. Calabria is the birthplace of the name of Italy, given to it by the Ancient Greeks who settled in this land starting from the 8th century BCE. They...

prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, China. It is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China, having been the capital eight times in history, As of...

or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm- and rain-god in the Canaanite and ancient Mesopotamian religions. He was attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BCE...

Ancient Faith Radio (AFR) is an Orthodox Christian Internet radio station, a division of Ancient Faith Ministries (AFM), a department of the Antiochian...

Mesopotamian Sumer, ancient Egypt, ancient Sudan, the Indus Valley civilisation of the Indian subcontinent, ancient China, and ancient Greece. From 100 BC...

Ancient Egyptian literature was written with the Egyptian language from ancient Egypt's pharaonic period until the end of Roman domination. It represents...

the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms, such as adornments for the nose or ankle, important...

that is pierced by volcanic peaks, with Mount Erciyes (ancient Argaeus) near Kayseri (ancient Caesarea) being the tallest at 3,916 m. The boundaries of...

history of exchanges. The name Melanesia (from Ancient Greek: μέλας, romanized: mélas, lit. 'black', and Ancient Greek: νῆσος, romanized: nêsos, lit. 'island')...

irrespective of where they lived, most notably the Goths. Another term, ancient Germans, is considered problematic by many scholars because it suggests...

Ancient River is a psychedelic rock band formed in 2008. The band was created by singer/songwriter James Barreto, and features Barreto (vocals/guitar/songwriter)...

alternate take on the history of Earth"; a defining feature is "its use of ancient mythology, with stories that take inspiration from multiple places around...

The precise customs and traditions of weddings in ancient Rome likely varied heavily across geography, social strata, and time period; Christian authors...

a very lively and extensively practiced tradition of formal debates in ancient India. These debates were conducted, sometimes with royal patronage, to...

Greek: Πτολεμαϊκὴ βασιλεία, Ptolemaïkḕ basileía) or Ptolemaic Empire was an ancient Hellenistic polity founded in 305 BC by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy...

Ancient History is a studio album by the American rapper Wiki. It was released on June 12, 2026, through Wikset Enterprise. It is Wiki's first fully solo...

of the Ancient Irish Music was published in 1796. His A General Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland was published in 1809. His The Ancient Music...

plain on the Volturno river. The town was founded after the destruction of Ancient Capua, now Santa Maria Capua Vetere. Capua's name comes from the Etruscan...

military chaplain corps Official website Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ancient See of Oslo" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company...

have collected word-of-mouth material in Scottish Gaelic, said to be from ancient sources, and that the work was his translation of that material. Ossian...

in the northwestern part of Aetolia-Acarnania in Greece, on the site of ancient Amfilochia. Under the Ottoman Empire, it was known as Karvasaras (Καρβασαράς;...

Britain's neolithic ancestry in the process. This is documented by studies of ancient DNA which demonstrate that the immigrants had large amounts of Bronze-Age...

or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. The Egyptian language, or ancient Egyptian (r n kmt; 'speech of Egypt'), is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic...

The Landmark Ancient Histories is a series of annotated editions for ancient history textbooks, edited by Robert B. Strassler, and published by Pantheon...

The ancient theatre of Taormina (Italian: Teatro antico di Taormina) is an ancient Greek theatre in Taormina, Sicily, built in the third century BC. A...

official in ancient Egypt to serve the pharaoh (king) during the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms. Vizier is the generally accepted rendering of ancient Egyptian...

and renamed it "Sebastia" in honour of the Roman emperor Augustus. The ancient city's hill is where the modern Palestinian village, retaining the Roman-era...