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,…
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…
Halicarnassus (Greek Ἁλικαρνασσός): Greek-Carian city, modern Bodrum in southwestern Turkey.Origin
Mosaic of Halicarnassus' city goddess
In the year 26 CE, the inhabitants…
Harmodius and Aristogeiton (†514 BCE): half-legendary tyrannicides, who killed the brother of the tyrant Hippias.
Statue of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the…