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Cities Named Alexandria by Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great (r. 356-323 BCE) founded, reorganized, or re-established several towns and cities across his empire and gave most of them the name of Alexandria.
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Painted Mummy Case of a Boy Named Pemsais
The name of the boy was written in Demotic and appears below the left hand. He wears a short tunic with a cloak wrapped around the waist and draped over the left shoulder from behind. From Akhmim, Egypt. Graeco-Roman, 1st century BCE to 1st...
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Jacques Cartier: French Explorer That Named Canada
French explorer Jacques Cartier named Canada after "kanata," the Huron-Iroquois word for settlement. Learn more about his search for a passage to East Asia and how he laid the original French claim for Canada in this video.
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The Ancient Celtic Pantheon
The ancient Celtic pantheon consisted of over 400 gods and goddesses who represented everything from rivers to warfare. With perhaps the exception of Lugh, the Celtic gods were not universally worshipped across Iron Age Europe but were very...