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![The Armies of the Crusades](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/9114.jpg?v=1710077163)
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The Armies of the Crusades
The armies of the Crusades (11th-15th centuries CE), which saw Christians and Muslims struggle for control of territories in the Middle East and elsewhere, could involve over 100,000 men on either side who came from all over Europe to form...
![Interview: Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14538.jpeg?v=1630058290)
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Interview: Living in Silverado: Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico
Professor Emeritus David Gitlitz is one of the world’s leading experts on Jewish-Catholic interactions in Iberia and the Americas. While initially drawn to the literature of the Spanish Golden Age as a student at Oberlin and Harvard, the...
![Celtic Warrior](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/16502.jpg?v=1721915830-1666168753)
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Celtic Warrior
The warriors of Celtic Europe were amongst the most distinctive of any fighters in the ancient world. With their great height, long hair and moustaches, frequent nakedness, painted and tattooed bodies, and fondness for collecting enemy heads...
![Migration Age](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14250.png?v=1725435306)
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Migration Age
The Migration Period, also called the Barbarian Invasions or German: Völkerwanderung (wandering of the peoples), was a period of human migration that occurred roughly between 300 to 700 CE in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity...
![Herculaneum](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/11310.jpg?v=1717420516)
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Herculaneum
Herculaneum, located on the Bay of Naples, was a Roman town which was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Like its neighbour Pompeii, the town was perfectly preserved by a metres-thick layer of volcanic ash which, in the...
![Ancient Celtic Pottery](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/13489.png?v=1706721189)
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Ancient Celtic Pottery
The pottery of the ancient Celts, although produced over great distances in space and time, shares several common features no matter where it was made, illustrating that there was contact between people living as far apart as Brittany and...
![Ancient Celtic Sculpture](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/10826.jpg?v=1721915834)
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Ancient Celtic Sculpture
The sculpture of the ancient Celts between 700 BCE and 400 CE is nothing if not varied as artists across Europe developed their own ideas and borrowed what interested them from neighbouring cultures. Early Celtic stone and wood sculptures...
![Tartessos](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3567.jpg?v=1618576213)
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Tartessos
The Tartessian culture existed from the 9th to the 6th centuries BCE in the south-westernmost part of Spain. The landscape between the modern cities Huelva and Cádiz is defined nowadays by the lower course of the Guadalquivir, but in antiquity...
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Bucchero
Bucchero wares are a shiny dark grey to black pottery produced by the Etruscans of central Italy from the 7th to 4th century BCE. Used for everyday purposes and as funerary and votive objects, bucchero incorporates many forms from simple...
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Dzalisa Archaeological Site, Georgia
Dzalisa is an archaeological site in Georgia dating back to the ancient kingdom of Iberia. It is situated in the Mukhrani valley, some 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) northwest of Mtskheta, and features remnants of a fortified city and various structures...