Archaeology

There are 1199 items in Archaeology:

The tombstones of Apamea

On the courtyard of the museum of Apamea, there is a special collection of tombstones of Roman legionaries, almost all of them belonging to II Parthica. Many of these stones are of about equal size, and it looks as if…

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Thebes (Egypt)

Thebes (Greek: Θῆβαι): name of several archaeological sites in Upper Egypt (a/o modern Luxor, Karnak, Medinet Habu, Valley of the Kings...).History …

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Thebes (Greece)

Thebes: important Greek city-state in central Greece, main city of Boeotia.Mycenaean History Oedipus and the sphinx Mythology: founded by Cadmus; the citadel…

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Theodorias (Qasr Libya)

Theodorias (modern Qasr Libya): Byzantine city in the Cyrenaica, (re)founded in 539 CE by the emperor Justinian. Two churches have been identified; the floor mosaics in the eastern basilica are among the greatest artistic treasures of Libya. …

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Theodorias, East Church

Theodorias (modern Qasr Libya): Byzantine city in the Cyrenaica, (re)founded in 539 CE by the emperor Justinian. Two churches have been identified; the floor mosaics in the eastern basilica are among the greatest artistic treasures of Libya. …

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Theodorias, West Church

Theodorias (modern Qasr Libya): Byzantine city in the Cyrenaica, (re)founded in 539 CE by the emperor Justinian. Two churches have been identified; the floor mosaics in the eastern basilica are among the greatest artistic treasures of Libya. …

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Thera

Thera (Greek Θήρα): island in the Aegean Sea, also known as Santorini. Akrotiri, Wall painting of antelopes Thera is a volcanic island and…

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Greek Θεσσαλονίκη): Greek city in Macedonia, Roman provincial capital, late ancient metropole.Therma Inscription of Antigonus Doson Close to the river place…

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Thessaly

Thessaly (Greek: Θεσσαλία): landscape in northern Greece.Country Tempe In a brief digression in his account of Xerxes' invasion of Greece, the Greek researcher…

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Thracian Dacia

Dacia: country north of the Lower Danube, more or less identical to modern Romania. It experienced influences from the Thracians (below), Scythians, Greeks, and Celts and became a powerful kingdom, added as a province to the Roman Empire, abandoned to…

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Thracians

Thracians: ancient nation living on the southeastern Balkan Peninsula.The land The Balkan mountains, seen from Kazanlak In the north the Danube, in…

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