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Unesco: Egypt: Ancient Thebes With Its Necropolis
Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens,...
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Unesco: Turkmenistan: Parthian Fortresses of Nisa
The Parthian Fortresses of Nisa consist of two tells of Old and New Nisa, indicating the site of one of the earliest and most important cities of the Parthian Empire, a major power from the mid 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. They...
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Unesco: Iran: Gonbad E Qabus
The 53 m high tomb built in ad 1006 for Qabus Ibn Voshmgir, Ziyarid ruler and literati, near the ruins of the ancient city of Jorjan in north-east Iran, bears testimony to the cultural exchange between Central Asian nomads and the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Arabia, 700 Bc
A map of Arabia and adjacent countries around 700 BC to "Illustrate the historic era at the beginning of records.". This map shows regions of fertile lands, sandy deserts, steppe deserts, and mountain ridges. The Tigris, Euphrates, and...
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Indus River Photograph
Photograph of the Indus River that provides a good perspective of mountains and ancient ruins in the surronding area.
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Indus River Photograph
Photograph of the Indus River that provides a good perspective of mountains and ancient ruins in the surronding area.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Griffin
In heraldry, the griffin is a fabulous animal, with the head and forefeet of an eagle, and the body, hind legs, and tail of a lion. The head is represented with pricked ears, symbolical of its vigilance. In mythology, the griffin was a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Poster
A poster with important images and facts of the Greek civilization.
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Image of an Egyptian Drawing Water
Obviously instrumental in Egypt's growth as a magnificent civilization, the Nile's annual inundation provided Egyptians with food and transportation.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North China, 1971
" North China includes the densely populated and intensively cultivated North China Plain, the loess-covered uplands of Shansi, northern Shensi, and eastern Kansu, and the sparsely populated, semiarid steppes of Inner Mongolia....
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Unesco: Greece: Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
Many civilizations have inhabited this small Aegean island, near Asia Minor, since the 3rd millennium B.C. The remains of Pythagoreion, an ancient fortified port with Greek and Roman monuments and a spectacular tunnel-aqueduct, as well...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Europe, 1904
"Europe - Greece has the honor of being in the van of European civilization and power, but in the seventh century before Christ a rival sprang up in Italy, which in the course of time attained such vigor that Greece at last was humbled...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Babylonia Before the Semitic (Chaldaean) Conquest, About 4000 Bc
A map of Babylonia, in current Iraq, before the Semitic (Chaldaean) Conquest, about 4000 B.C. This map shows the early territories of Makan and Melucha between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, with the Makan capital Ur inhabited by the...
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Unesco: China: Mount Taishan
The sacred Mount Tai ('shan' means 'mountain') was the object of an imperial cult for nearly 2,000 years, and the artistic masterpieces found there are in perfect harmony with the natural landscape. It has always been a source of...
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Unesco: Romania: Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains
Built in the 1st centuries B.C. and A.D. under Dacian rule, these fortresses show an unusual fusion of military and religious architectural techniques and concepts from the classical world and the late European Iron Age. The six...
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Unesco: Thailand: Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns
Sukhothai was the capital of the first Kingdom of Siam in the 13th and 14th centuries. It has a number of fine monuments, illustrating the beginnings of Thai architecture. The great civilization which evolved in the Kingdom of Sukhothai...
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Researchers Excavate Buried Wall at the Site of Caballete in Fortaleza Valley
Imagine a civilization in the Americas that predated the ancient Egyptians! That's what archeologist Jonathan Haas found on the coast of Peru. Read here about this remarkable discovery.
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Anthropologist Winifred Creamer Collects a Carbon Sample
Imagine a civilization in the Americas that predated the ancient Egyptians! That's what archeologist Jonathan Haas found on the coast of Peru. Read here about this remarkable discovery.
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Jonathan Haas of the Field Museum and Creamer
Imagine a civilization in the Americas that predated the ancient Egyptians! That's what archeologist Jonathan Haas found on the coast of Peru. Read here about this remarkable discovery.
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