Icosium (Greek: Ἰκόσιον): Phoenician colony, Roman city, modern Algiers.Icosium
Mosaic from Roman Icosium
Founded by the Phoenicians; the site is more or…
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: 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…
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…
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…
Iol Caesarea: Phoenician colony, Numidian city, capital of the Roman province Mauretania Caesariensis, modern Cherchell.Iol Caesarea
Juba II
c.400 BCE: founded as…