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Ptolemy I and other early rulers of the dynasty were not married to their relatives, the childless marriage of siblings Ptolemy II and Arsinoe II [22] being an exception. The first child-producing incestuous marriage in the Ptolemaic dynasty was that of Ptolemy IV and Arsinoe III, who were succeeded as co-pharaohs by their son Ptolemy V, born ...
The detailed armor, depicting a Parthian returning standards to a Roman, symbolizes peace along the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. [1] The statue stands 2.08 metres (6 ft 10 in) tall and weighs 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb). The Augustus of Prima Porta is now displayed in the Braccio Nuovo (New Arm) of the Vatican Museums. Since its ...
Lineage II. Lineage II is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Windows and the second game in the Lineage series. It is a prequel to Lineage and is set 150 years before the first game. [2] It has become popular since its October 1, 2003 launch in South Korea, reporting 40,027,918 unique users during the month of March 2007.
A crest is a component of a heraldic display, consisting of the device borne on top of the helm. Originating in the decorative sculptures worn by knights in tournaments and, to a lesser extent, battles, crests became solely pictorial after the 16th century (the era referred to by heraldists as that of "paper heraldry").
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Nebuchadnezzar II. King of Babylon. King of Sumer and Akkad. King of the Universe. A portion of the so-called " Tower of Babel stele", depicting Nebuchadnezzar II on the right and featuring a depiction of Babylon 's great ziggurat (the Etemenanki) on the left [a] King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Reign.
The House of Kamehameha(Hale O Kamehameha), or the Kamehameha dynasty, was the reigning royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, beginning with its founding by Kamehameha I in 1795 and ending with the death of Kamehameha V in 1872 and Lunalilo in 1874. [ 1 ] The kingdom continued for another 21 years, until its overthrow in 1893 with the fall ...
195–187 BCE. Brihadratha. 187–180 BCE. v. t. e. Mauryan Empire under Chandragupta Maurya. Chandragupta Maurya[a] (350–295 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire, which ruled over a geographically-extensive empire based in Magadha. [6] He reigned from 320 BCE to 298 BCE. [7]