Archaeology

There are 1199 items in Archaeology:

Janzur

Janzur: site of a beautiful ancient tomb in Libya. Priest pooring a libation About ten kilometers west of modern Tripoli (ancient Oea), along…

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Kalhu (Nimrud)

Kalhu or, Biblical, Kalah (Hebrew כלח): capital of ancient Assyria, modern Nimrud.History The ziggurat of Nimrud This city, called Kalhu by the Assyrians…

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Kalkriese

Kalkriese: site of one of the fights of the Battle in the Teutoburg Forest (9 CE). Concentration of Roman military finds at Kalkriese…

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Kaneš (Kültepe)

Kaneš or Neša: central town in the Middle Bronze trade network of Anatolia, with several palaces and an Assyrian trading post (modern Kültepe, twenty kilometers northeast of modern Kayseri).Early History …

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Kara Tepe

Kara Tepe: ancient Buddhist monastery near modern Termez (southern Uzbekistan).Early Bactria Bactrian imitation of an Athenian drachm Since the early Achaemenid age, Bactria…

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Karahunj

Karahunj: megalithic sanctuary in Armenia, also known as Dik-dik Karer, Koşun taş, and Zorats Karer. Karahunj, Iron Age tumulus with stone…

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Karchemish

Karchemish: ancient city on the east bank of the river Euphrates, capital of a Neohittite kingdom.Country The Euphrates at Birecek, north…

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Kassites / Cossaeans

Kassites (Akkadian Kaššu): tribal federation living in the Zagros mountains, in modern Luristan. In the seventeenth century BCE, they threatened Babylonia, which they captured in the fifteenth century. More than a millennium later, they are mentioned - now called Cossaeans…

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