Archaeology

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Cartouche

Cartouche (Egyptian: shenu): an oval shape, used by the ancient Egyptians to write the names of their kings. Measure with the cartouches…

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Catualium (Heel)

Catualium: town, known from the Peutinger Map, identified with Heel in the Netherlands. Catualium is mentioned on the Peutinger Map and was situated along the road on the west bank of the Meuse. The town has been identified with modern Heel…

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Celtic Dacia

Dacia: country north of the Lower Danube, more or less identical to modern Romania. It experienced influences from the Thracians, Scythians, Greeks, and Celts (below) and became a powerful kingdom, added as a province to the Roman Empire, abandoned to…

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Celts

Celts: common name for the Iron Age civilizations of Western Europe, more or less identical to the La Tène culture.Names The…

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Charax

Alexandria in Susiana or Charax: city at the head of the Persian Gulf. modern Khayaber. Charax Alexandria in Susiana was founded in…

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Chauci

Chauci (Greek: Καῦχοι): name of the inhabitants of the southern shore of the North Sea.A Northern Tribe Mask from Middelstum The Chauci are…

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