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On the hill of Menelaion during the 8th century BCE the eponymous heroes, Menelaus and Helen of Troy, were worshiped, with a possible altar and enclosure. At the end of the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, a temple built with limestone was erected in place. The Menelaeion heroon has been recognized as such by Ludwig Ross. Ross excavated the area in ...
On October 22, 2009, Sony Online Entertainment released EverQuest II: The Complete Collection, a retail bundle which included the base game, the first three adventure packs, and the first six expansions up to The Shadow Odyssey. [45] The package also came with 500 Station Cash to use in the in-game digital store, and 60 days of free game time. [46]
Thymbra or Thymbre (Ancient Greek: Θύμβρα or Θύμβρη) was a town in the Troad, near Troy. [1] The second of the six gates of Troy was named after it, according to John Lydgate. [2] The location is about five miles from present day Hissarlik, the site of the present archaeological excavations. [3]
This list of shtetls and shtots (eastern European towns and cities with significant pre-Holocaust Jewish populations) is organized by country. Some villages that are listed at Yad Vashem have not been included here.
Name: official name, worded as inscribed on the list Region: region within or outside a country where a heritage is still practiced Country: country, as inscribed on the list Year: the year the site was inscribed on the Intangible Cultural Heritage List Session: the session and decision in which a heritage is inscribed by the committee [nb 1]
The Trzciniec culture is an Early and Middle Bronze Age (2400-1300 BC) archaeological culture in Central-Eastern Europe, mainly Poland and parts of Lithuania. The material culture similarity and overall chronological contemporaneity with Komariv (Ukraine) and Sośnica (Belarus) cultures resulted in the definition of the Trzciniec-Komarów-Sośnica complex [1] or, more recently, the Trzciniec ...
The definition of the Near East is usually based around West Asia, the Balkans, and North Africa, including the historical Fertile Crescent, the Levant, Anatolia, East Thrace and Egypt. The history of archaeological investigation in this region grew out of the 19th century discipline of biblical archaeology , efforts mostly by Europeans to ...
Josephus places Cuthah, which for him is the name of a river and of a district, [26] in Persia, and Neubauer [27] says that it is the name of a country near Corduene. Ibn Sa'd in his Kitab Tabaqat Al-Kubra writes that the maternal grandfather of Abraham, Karbana, was the one who discovered the river Kutha.