Archaeology

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Gur-e Dokhtar

Gur-e Dokhtar: Achaemenid tomb near Buzpar in western Fars.Gur-e Dokhtar (Farsi for "the tomb of the virgin"), is the local name of an Achaemenid cut-stone tomb, located in the valley of Buzpar (local phonetic: "Poshtpar"), in the vicinity of Sar-Mashhad,…

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Guyum

Guyum: site of a Sasanian rock relief in Iran. Guyum, relief of king Bahram II The Iranian king Bahrām II (276-293) was not…

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Hadrumetum

Hadrumetum (Greek: Ἀδρύμητος): Punic-Roman port in Africa, modern Sousse, second city in Roman Africa.Hadrumetum Portrait of a Roman man c.800 BCE Founded…

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Halicarnassus (Bodrum)

Halicarnassus (Greek Ἁλικαρνασσός): Greek-Carian city, modern Bodrum in southwestern Turkey.Origin Mosaic of Halicarnassus' city goddess In the year 26 CE, the inhabitants…

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Halos

Halos or Alos (Greek Ἅλος): Greek town in southeastern Thessaly.Old Halos Map of Hellenistic Halos The city of Halos may date back to…

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