Archaeology

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Hittites

Hittites: ancient nation in Central Anatolia, named after their capital Hattusa, builders of one of the great Bronze Age empires.Origin Kaneš, the…

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Hludana

Hludana: Germanic goddess, venerated in the area of ancient Xanten and Nijmegen. The Hludana inscription from Beetgum The Germanic goddess Hludana is…

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Icosium (Algiers)

Icosium (Greek: Ἰκόσιον): Phoenician colony, Roman city, modern Algiers.Icosium Mosaic from Roman Icosium Founded by the Phoenicians; the site is more or…

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Illyrians

Illyrians (Greek Ἰλλυρίοι): the name the ancient Greeks and Romans gave to the various tribes and states in the general area of Albania and former Yugoslavia.Name …

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Imbriogion (Demircili)

Imbriogion: ancient town, modern Demircili, in southern Turkey, location of several Roman mausoleums.There are six mausoleums along the road from Seleucia on the coast to Diocaesarea, a Hellenistic-Roman city in southern Turkey. The photos show three of them: The Lower Mausoleum…

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Indo-Europeans

Indo-Europeans: general name for the people speaking an Indo-European language. They are (linguistic) descendants of the people of the Yamnaya culture (c.3600-2300 BCE) in Ukraine and southern Russia, and settled in the area from Western Europe to India in various migrations in…

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Inscription DSaa

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.DSaa, inscription on a slab of stone [This text from Susa is a Babylonian, abridged variant of DSf on…

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Insula

Insula ("island"): Latin name for a housing block in a city built according to the Hippodamian Plan. The insulae of Pompeii…

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Iol Caesarea

Iol Caesarea: Phoenician colony, Numidian city, capital of the Roman province Mauretania Caesariensis, modern Cherchell.Iol Caesarea Juba II c.400 BCE: founded as…

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