Dedan (Hebrew: דְּדָן): town in the Arabian desert along the Incense Route in the Al-‘Ula oasis. It was the capital of the Iron Age kingdoms of Dedan and Lihyan.The Al-‘Ula Oasis
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Dendrochronology: dating a wooden object on the basis of the growth rings of a tree. This is one of the most accurate ways to date an ancient object.
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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.DH, tablet from Hamadan
Text, found on a tablet of gold and a tablet of silver. The text is…
Diploma: Roman expression for an official act, especially a documenting granting citizen rights to a man who had served twenty-five years in an auxiliary unit.
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King Djet: short-lived ruler of Egypt's First Dynasty, probably in the final quarter of the thirtieth century BCE.The reign of King Djet, who was buried in Tomb Z in Abydos, was presumably short-lived. This assumption is based on the discovery of…