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The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...
Ruins of Aizanoi Map of ancient Aizanoi and the modern village of Çavdarhisar, c. 1835. Colonnaded street in Aizanoi. Settlement in the area is known from the Bronze Age.The city may have derived its name from Azan, one of three sons of Arcas and the nymph Erato, legendary ancestors of the Phrygians.
Possible illustration of the conflict between Abydos and Nekhen (Hierakonpolis), on the Gebel el-Arak Knife, Louvre Museum, 3300–3200 BCE. [1]Nekhen (/ ˈ n ɛ k ə n /, Ancient Egyptian: nḫn), also known as Hierakonpolis (/ ˌ h aɪər ə ˈ k ɒ n p ə l ɪ s /; Greek: Ἱεράκων πόλις, romanized: Hierákōn pólis, meaning City of Hawks or City of Falcons, [2] [3] a reference ...
View of the Serapeum remains in Alexandria Map of ancient Alexandria, with the Serapeum located in the south (marked #7) Victory Pillar, erected by emperor Diocletian in 297 AD, at the Serapeum The Serapeum of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom was an ancient Greek temple built by Ptolemy III Euergetes (reigned 246–222 BC) and dedicated to ...
The site and its deity are mentioned in texts from as far back as the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BC), and a temple to the god probably stood there very early in Egyptian history. The only known monuments at the site, however, date to the reigns of pharaohs from the Late Period (664–332 BC): Necho II , Psamtik II , Hakor , and Nectanebo I .
A map showing the Battle of Actium. Actium or Aktion (Ancient Greek: Ἄκτιον) was a town on a promontory in ancient Acarnania at the entrance of the Ambraciot Gulf, off which Octavian gained his celebrated victory, the Battle of Actium, over Antony and Cleopatra, on September 2, 31 BCE.
Sankissa (also Sankasia, Sankassa and Sankasya) was an ancient city in India.The city came into prominence at the time of Gautama Buddha.According to a Buddhist source, it was thirty leagues from Savatthi. [1]
The temple original location was 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Aswan in Nubia, very close to the first cataract of the Nile. In the 20th century it was later dismantled as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia and rebuilt in the center of Madrid , Spain , in Parque de la Montaña, Madrid, a square located Calle de ...