Miscellaneous
On this page, you will find an overview of everything that is not a place, a person, a deity, a battle, an object... in short, this page offers you everything that does not fit in the other pages.
There are 32 items in Miscellaneous:
The Great Flood
The Great Flood: mythological story about a great destruction that once befell the earth. There are several variants; the Biblical version is the most famous. The possibility that there is a historical event behind the story (a local flood in southern Babylonia in…Historiography
Historiography: the study of the way historians have tried to render account of their past.Ancient Near East Clio, the Muse of…Legion: alphabetically
Legion: infantry unit in the Roman army. Legionary (age of Augustus) A Roman legion was an infantry unit consisting of heavily armed…List of Roman Emperors
On these pages, you will find the names, regnal dates, and portraits of the emperors of the Roman Empire, with links to more information. …Luxenberg Thesis
Luxenberg Thesis: the idea that Islam originated as a Monophysite Christian sect in eastern Syria. It assumes that the Quran was not written in Arabic but in Syriac-Arabic, which in turn presupposes that there has been a time in which…Lycian tombs
Lycian tombs: a type of sarcophagus-shaped tomb, only known from Lycia. Lycian tomb in Myra In Antiquity, the bodies of the dead…Maccabees and Method
The Maccabaean Revolt is an interesting case study to introduce some aspects of historical method, as can be seen below.Increasing Chaos …Marble, Natural Stone, and Minerals
Marble: one of the main building materials from Antiquity, also used for sculpture. On this page, marble is discussed together with several other types of natural stone and minerals. You will find photos of the main types of marble, various…Mesopotamian Chronology
Mesopotamian Chronology: the chronology of ancient Babylonia, Assyria, and surrounding areas.General Ammisaduqa's Venus tablet Although humankind uses many calendars, it is easy…Oppidum
Oppidum: Latin name for a Celtiberian or Celtic hillfort. Cassel Originally, the word oppidum referred to the citadel or acropolis of the…Orchestra
Orchestra (Greek: ὀρχήστρα): the (semi)circular center of a Greek or Roman theater or odeon. The orchestra of the theater of Salamis Originally,…Parthian Empire
The Parthian or Arsacid Empire was the most enduring of the empires of the ancient Near East. After the Parni nomads had settled in Parthia and had built a small independent kingdom, they rose to power under king Mithradates the…