Megiddo: important excavation in Galilee.Bronze Age
Thuthmose III
Situated at an important pass though the Carmel Mountains, Megiddo controlled the "Way of…
Memphis (Egyptian: Inbu-Hedj, "white walls", and Men-nefer, "lasting and beautiful"; Greek: Μέμφις): capital of ancient Egypt.
Memphis, Statue of Ramesses II…
Messiah (mâšîah, "the anointed one"): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel. The nature of both the Messiah and the restoration was a matter of debate, and there were several claimants.Menahem (66 CE)
Sources: Flavius Josephus, Jewish War…
Menander of Ephesus: Greek author of a history of Phoenicia.When he was writing the first books of his Josephus' Jewish Antiquities, the Greek-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus essentially retold the story of the Bible. He believed that the Jewish sacred literature…
Mentor of Rhodes (c.385-340): Greek mercenary leader in Persian service, served under king Artaxerxes III Ochus.Mentor's career as mercenary leader started when he was twenty-seven years old. In 358, he served under an important Persian nobleman, Artabazus, the satrap of…
Merovingians: first dynasty of the Frankish kingdom in Early Medieval Gaul.
Replica of Childeric's ring
The Merovingian kingdom was created by a man named Childeric,…
Mesopotamia: pseudo-ancient name for the country that is now known as Iraq. In Antiquity, it was not common to regard the five parts of this region as a unity.
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