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Map of Roman Africa
Nothern Africa under Roman rule. From H.Kiepert (1879), Historischer Schulatlas.
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Poverty Point
Map of the Poverty Point archaeological site, Louisiana.
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Alexander The Great and Roxane
Alexander The Great and Roxane (1756) by Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707–1762). Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Map of Ancient Egypt from 1742 CE
Celarius, 1742.
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Rachel Weisz as Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria, played by Rachel Weisz in the motion picture Agora (2009).
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Khirokitia
The first Cypriots mostly lived in Khirokitia, a small village near the modern town of Limassol.
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Heraclitus of Ephesos
Heraclitus of Ephesos, painting from the 17th century by Johannes Moreelse.
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Map of Colchis
Detail from the map “Bosporus, Maeotis, Iberia, Albania et Sarmatia Asiatica “ by CHRISTOPHORUS CELLARIUS (1638-1707), from the book “Notitiae Orbis Antiqui sive Geographiae Plenioris Tomus Alter Asiam et Africam“, printed in Leipzig by Gleditschi...
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Ptolemy I Soter
Bust of Ptolemy I Soter, king of Egypt (305 BC–282 BC) and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty. The identification is based upon coin effigies.
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Assyrian Doorway Protective Spirit
Protective spirit (one of a pair) in the guise of a royal figure with cloak and mantle. It guarded the doorway into the Temple of Ninurta (chief god of the city of Nimrud and Assyrian god of war and farming) in Nimrud. The temple itself was...
