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Alexander the Great Part 4
Find out why many still consider Alexander the Great to be the greatest military leader of all time. Animated maps chart the full story of his brilliant 10-year campaign across Greece, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan and to the borders of...
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Italy, Sicily - Selinunte- Temple D
Selinunte is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek period in Italy. The city was famous throughout the ancient world for the richness of its farmland and its monumental temples. It enjoyed a prosperous existence...
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Italy, Sicily - Selinunte- Temple C
Selinunte is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek period in Italy. The city was famous throughout the ancient world for the richness of its farmland and its monumental temples. It enjoyed a prosperous existence...
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Italy, Sicily - Selinunte- Temple G
Selinunte is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek period in Italy. The city was famous throughout the ancient world for the richness of its farmland and its monumental temples. It enjoyed a prosperous existence...
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Turkey, Sardis - Temple of Artemis
The Temple of Artemis at Sardis, the fourth largest Ionic temple in the world, is situated dramatically on the western slopes of the Acropolis. The area might have been sacred to Artemis from the earliest days onward as attested by a...
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Italy, Sicily - Selinunte- Temple E
Selinunte is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek period in Italy. The city was famous throughout the ancient world for the richness of its farmland and its monumental temples. It enjoyed a prosperous existence...
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Italy, Ancient city Paestum
Poseidonia was probably founded about 600 bc by Greek colonists from Sybaris, along the Gulf of Taranto, and it had become a flourishing town by 540, judging from its temples. After many years' resistance the city came under the...
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Italy, Sicily - Selinunte- Temple O and Temple A
Selinunte is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek period in Italy. The city was famous throughout the ancient world for the richness of its farmland and its monumental temples. It enjoyed a prosperous existence...
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Italy, Paestum - Tomb of the Diver and the Lucanian paintings
Paestum also is renowned for its painted tombs, mainly belonging to the period of Lucanian rule, while only one of them dates to the Greek period. The Tomb of the Diver is an archaeological monument, built in about 470 BC and found by...
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Italy, Sicily - Selinunte- Temple F
Selinunte is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek period in Italy. The city was famous throughout the ancient world for the richness of its farmland and its monumental temples. It enjoyed a prosperous existence...
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Alexander the Great Part 2
Find out why many still consider Alexander the Great to be the greatest military leader of all time. Animated maps chart the full story of his brilliant 10-year campaign across Greece, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan and to the borders of...
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Italy, Sicily - Selinunte
Selinunte is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek period in Italy. The city was famous throughout the ancient world for the richness of its farmland and its monumental temples. It enjoyed a prosperous existence...
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Turkey, Sardis ancient city
The Greek historian and father of history, Herodotus, notes that the city was founded by the sons of Hercules, the Heraclides.The earliest reference to Sardis is in The Persians of Aeschylus (472 BC); in the Iliad, the name Hyde seems to...
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The Silk Roads: Trade and Movement: An irrigated oasis
What was this place like? What insights did they find there when excavating? The Silk Roads: Trade and Movement, Part 2
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Macedonia, Heracles Lencestis - Chiristian basilicas
Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city situated 2 km south of the present-day town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. It was founded by Philip II of Macedon in the middle of the 4th century BC, after he had conquered the...
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Macedonia, Heracles Lyncetis ancient city
Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city situated 2 km south of the present-day town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. It was founded by Philip II of Macedon in the middle of the 4th century BC, after he had conquered the...
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Turkey, Ancient City Pergamon
Pergamon was an ancient city located in the Anatolia region, approximately 25 kilometres from the Aegean Sea in present-day Bergama, Izmir Province of Turkey. Xenophon provides the earliest surviving documentary mention of Pergamon....
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Macedonia, Stobi ancient city
The city was first mentioned in writing by the historian Livy, in connection with a victory of Philip V of Macedon over the Dardani in 197 BC. In 168 BC, the Romans defeated Perseus and Macedonia was divided into four nominally...
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Italy, Paestum, Temple of Neptune
The name Temple of Neptune is a misnomer from the 18th century, even though it was actually dedicated to the goddess Hera. The temple was also used to worship Zeus and another deity, whose identity is unknown. There are visible on the...
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Alexander: Mutiny at Opis
Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army conquered much of the known world in a brilliant 10-year campaign. But in 324 BC, near modern Baghdad, his army mutinied. This is the speech he made to his troops, according to Roman historian...
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Turkey, Sardis ancient Synagogue
The synagogue was a section of a large bath-gymnasium complex, that was in use for about 450 - 500 years. In the beginning, middle of the 2nd century AD, the rooms the synagogue is situated in were used as changing rooms or resting rooms.
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Turkey, Sardis - ancient Roman bath-gymnasium
The Bath-Gymnasium complex, one of at least two monumental bath buildings in the city, is located near the northwestern city limits and covers 23,000 square meters. In plan, the complex belongs to a Roman bath type called "Imperial"...
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Alexander the Great Part 3
Find out why many still consider Alexander the Great to be the greatest military leader of all time. Animated maps chart the full story of his brilliant 10-year campaign across Greece, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan and to the borders of...
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Italy, Sicily - Selinunte- Temple B
Selinunte is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek period in Italy. The city was famous throughout the ancient world for the richness of its farmland and its monumental temples. It enjoyed a prosperous existence...