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Near his capital Ancyra (modern Ankara), Pylamenes, the king's heir, rebuilt a temple of the Phrygian god Men to venerate Augustus (the Monumentum Ancyranum), as a sign of fidelity. It was on the walls of this temple in Galatia that the major source for the Res Gestae of Augustus were preserved for modernity. Few of the provinces proved more ...
Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Galatian object, 3rd century BC, Hidirsihlar tumulus, Bolu. Seeing something of a Hellenized savage in the Galatians, Francis Bacon and other Renaissance writers called them Gallo-Graeci ('Gauls settled among the Greeks') and the country Gallo-Graecia , as had the 3rd century AD Latin historian Justin . [ 4 ]
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo); British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]
Nahal Me'arot: Wadi el-Mughara World Heritage Site [106] Nimrod Fortress: Nitzana: Ohalo: Omrit: Horbat Omrit Khirbat el-‘Ora: Peace Forest: Caiaphas ossuary: Peki'in Synagogue: Phasael tower: Hippicus Tower Tell Qasile [58] Tel Qashish: Tell el-Qassis [107] Qesem cave: Tel Qiri [108] Qubur Bani Isra'il: Tell Qudadi [109] Qumran: Khirbet Qumran
Astronomers using the Gaia space telescope have located two ancient streams of stars that helped the Milky Way galaxy grow and evolve more than 12 billion years ago.
The institute also publicly exhibits an extensive collection of artifacts related to ancient civilizations and archaeological discoveries at its on-campus building in Hyde Park, Chicago. According to anthropologist William Parkinson of the Field Museum , the ISAC's highly focused "near Eastern, or southwest Asian and Egyptian" collection is one ...
Open square in front of the museum entrance. The first museum in Ankara was established by Mübarek Galip Bey, Directorate of Culture, in 1921, in the section of the Castle of Ankara called Akkale. In addition to this museum, artifacts from the Temple of Augustus and Rome and the Roman Baths of Ankara were also collected.
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