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Mons Porphyrites (today Jabal Abu Dukhkhan) is the mountainous site of a group of ancient quarries in the Red Sea Hills of the Eastern Desert in Egypt.Under the Roman Empire, they were the only known source of the purple "imperial" variety of porphyry.
In the time of transition and cultural intersection between West and East in Vietnam at the end of 19th and early 20th century, Vĩnh Ký had such a grandiose career that the French scholar J. Bouchot called him "the only scholar in Indochina and even the modern China" In Vietnam, Vĩnh Ký was praised as the most excellent language and ...
Porphyry of Tyre (/ ˈ p ɔːr f ɪr i /; Koinē Greek: Πορφύριος, romanized: Porphýrios; c. 234 – c. AD 305) was a Neoplatonic philosopher born in Tyre, Roman Phoenicia [1] during Roman rule. [a] [1] [2] He edited and published the Enneads, the only collection of the work of Plotinus, his teacher.
Porphyry saw Christians as treasonous and immoral, and believed that those who would not convert away from the religion should be executed. [5] As quoted by Jerome, Porphyry mocked Paul and the early Christians while suggesting that the "magical arts" performed by Jesus of Nazareth and his followers were nothing special, done similarly by other figures of Greco-Roman history: [6]
Việt Nam sử lược (chữ Hán: 越南史略, French: Précis d'Histoire du Việt-Nam, lit. "Outline History of Vietnam"), was the first history text published in the Vietnamese language and the Vietnamese alphabet. It was compiled by Vietnamese historian Trần Trọng Kim.
Porphyry (geology), an igneous rock with large crystals in a fine-grained matrix, often purple, and prestigious Roman sculpture material; Shoksha porphyry, quartzite of purple color resembling true porphyry mined near the village of Shoksha, Karelia, Russia; Porphyritic, the general igneous texture of a rock with two distinct crystal ...
According to Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, a book written in a Confucian perspective, Kinh Dương Vương originates from China: Emperor Ming, the great-great-grandson of the mythological Chinese ruler Shennong, went on a tour of inspection south of the Nanling Mountains, settled down and married a certain Beautiful Immortal Lady (鶩僊女 Vụ Tiên Nữ), who then gave birth to an ...
It was "almost certainly" [1] brought to Venice as part of the loot from the Sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade in 1204 CE. The condottiere Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola was beheaded on 5 May 1432 on the Piazzetta , where his head was presumably left exposed for some time, leading to the sculpture's traditional nickname.