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[Iran Quest] Persian potsherd found in Israel | Iran Quest: According to Rivka Cohen-Amin of the Israel Antiquities Authority, the line belongs to The Rubaiyat, a collection of quatrains (four-line poems) by the 11th-century Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer, Omar Khayyam. 

[Historia Gentis Societum] Historia Gentis Societum » Blog Archive » Persian Jug found in ...: The fragment is treated with a turquoise glaze and is adorned with floral patterns and a black inscription. While studying the artifact prior to publication, Rivka Cohen-Amin of the Israel Antiquities Authority discerned that the inscription on the neck of the vessel is written in Persian.

[TURKEY LIVE ABOUT turkish-Turchia] Lycia Antalya | TURKEY LIVE ABOUT turkish-Turchia: Lycian rock cut tombs of Dalyan.Though the second-century AD dialogue Erotes found the cities of Lycia “interesting more for their history than for their monuments, since they have retained none of their former splendor”, many relics of the Lycians remain visible today, especially their distinctive rock-cut tombs in the sides of cliffs in the region. The British Museum in London has one of the best collections of Lycian artifacts.

[Turkey & Europe] Ephesus - Izmir - Turkiye : Turkey & Europe: This open-air theater was used initially for drama, but during later Roman times gladiatorial combats were also held on its stage, with the first archaeological evidence of a gladiator graveyard found in May 2007.[16] The population of Ephesus also had several major bath complexes, built at various points while the city was under Roman rule. The city had one of the most advanced aqueduct systems in the ancient world, with multiple aqueducts of various sizes to supply different areas of the city, including 4 major aqueducts.

[Atlantis Archives] Atalante and the Persian Empire: Pseudo-Symnos says, ‘they founded it, having set off from Hellas, about the time when Cyrus [the Great] took Media,’ i.e.

[Antiquities Holy Land Place] RARE OLD STONE EGYPTIAN FUNERAL BOAT » Antiquities Holy Land Place: Rare Mummy Found With Strange Artifacts, Tattoo in Peru Syria unearths 2300-year-old pharaonic engraving. PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH canot, boat, and Ger.

[CHN English-RSS] CHN | News: He has sued the Field Museum in Chicago, too, as well as the Harvard museums and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for other Persian artifacts. In those cases, lawyers deny the items belong to the government of Iran.

[Confessions of a Cultural Idiot] The Phoenicians live again « Confessions of a Cultural Idiot: But that’s where University of Michigan archaeologist Sharon Herbert’s cheerful attitude comes in, because her digs in northern Israel have been astoundingly successful, rewriting a little history, and finding more traces of the Phoenicians on top of that.

[Life and Land] Remember, Archaeology is NOT a Treasure Hunt!: He answered in the affirmative and mentioned that a burial cave in the Silwan Necropolis across from the City of David had an inscription that mentioned there was no silver or gold buried in the cave and concluded with a curse on anyone who opened it (Avigad 1953: 143). I did not like that last line.

[Iran Quest] U.S. court battle over Persian relics’ future | Iran Quest: Strachman, however, maintains he has been contacted by interested museums who want to expand their collections. He says he has no intention of trying to sell them commercially - something he says would be “absolutely inappropriate.”

[WELCOME TO MY NEW WORLD 2] WELCOME TO MY NEW WORLD - CREATIVE CIRCLE SUNDAY-ART SUNDAY: Attached to its front is a bull's head made of a wooden core covered by a gold sheet, embellished with lapis lazuli and shell. Underneath the twelve tightly curled locks of the bull's beard is a fascinating trapezoidal composition of contrasting shell and bitumen, arranged in four horizontal registers of decreasing width.

[The Ancient Digger] The Ancient Digger: 13 Wonders of the World: It was built around the year 1460, but deserted as an official site for the Inca rulers a hundred years later, at the time of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Mancu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca location located 2,400 meters above sea level and it's situated on a mountain crest above the Urubamba Valley in Peru.

[History Of Macedonia] The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - A Challenge to the ...: There were no students in the province ”” before communism ”” being taught a history rife with falsifications and inaccuracies to de-Hellenize king Philip’s and Alexander the Great’s Macedonians. There were no efforts in southern Serbia before communism to inculcate the false ideas that Greece usurped the “Macedonian identity” to the students and teach them to be vindictive against the Greeks grasped the communism’s impact on the Macedonian problem and described it better than anybody else with a single sentence: “only communism could provide the theoretical base and the necessary force to push for a separate ”˜Macedonian nation.’”

[Daniel Pipes Weblog] The University of Chicago vs. Victims of Terror - Daniel Pipes Blog: Ever creative, Strachman, targeted some 20,000 antique clay tablets of Persepolis, dating from about 553 B.C.-330 B.C., the oldest Persian tablets with alphabetical inscriptions. These have been housed in Chicago since as far back as the 1930s, at the University of Chicago and the Field Museum and Strachman claimed them on the grounds that the university had acknowledged that they rightfully belonged to Iran.

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