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The Atlantic: The Brain of a Man Who Is Always Thinking About Ancient Rome An Egyptian Papyrus Fascination with Ancient Rome is not new, the founders of the United States looked to the Roman Republic and ancient Egyptians in the 5th century studied ancient Roman speeches, as seen from the papyrus fragment in Latin The Reverse: Hunting of wild goats was a popular tradition in ancient Crete, and this is the reference these ancient coins are still relatively accessible.

One ancient sewer from the Sumarian city Eshnunna in central Mesopotamia, consisted of brick sewers connected In 2020 there was evidence unearthed of more than 4000 year old sewers in ancient China in the Ancient The sewer was an important contribution to public health in ancient Rome and an impressive feat of ancient are still visible and even somewhat functional in Rome today: Outlet of the Cloaca Maxima, Life in Ancient Samuel Ball Platner (as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby): A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient

There are is one example in the SixBid Collector's Archive (25-Jun-2021 Zöttl E-Auktion 4 Lot 10). Numiswiki at FORVM Ancient Coins lists a few references for the coins of "Gallia" which are mostly not N. , xxvi. p. 238 )." - Numiswiki at FORVM Ancient Coins Here's a Victoriatus from some time after 218 Western Europe" - RJ King et al.(2011) The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica Cambridge Ancient Wikipedia Massalia Wikimonde Marseille antique Bibliography for Gallic coins at Forums Ancient Coins

Saxx of a Lascaux cave painting, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons My latest ancient coin has a beautiful The book covers many aspects of the relationship between cattle and the ancient Greeks: “The accumulation The book is rich with facts and stories about cattle in ancient Greece and also draws an arc from Greek I will make up for the lack of images in the book with my own ancient coins depicting cattle, starting This Neapolitan bull is meant to represent Achelöos, the water god of ancient Greece.

Ancient coin collectors must see perfection differently or they would not have much to collect at any Doug Smith , author of the educational site on ancient coins that I have linked to his name, in a post Elymais is diminutive of "Elam" as the kingdom included parts of the ancient province of Elam. This tetradrachm of Elymais is for me a perfect example of an ancient coin that is more beautiful because

tethrippon (a four horse chariot race) , Foals tethrippon (a four horse chariot race with foals) , 10 Blackwell companions to the ancient world, WILEY-BLACKWELL, Chichester. Penn Museum Excavations at Nemea (note: games were not held at Argos during Nero's time) KU Leuven, Ancient Olympics Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources , Stephen Miller, pp. 162-164 Smithsonian Magazine

An arca ferrata with three money bags sitting on top, can be seen on this beautiful coin with excellent from Sessions 2–3 , Single Contributions, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022 (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient

"Ancient democracies and federations of states" is a theme in ancient coins that attracts my interest Greece also showing Italy to the West and Türkiye to the East ( Google Maps ) Boeotia from a map of ancient Representative Government in the Ancient Polities . The Classical Journal , 14 (9), 533–549. A Companion to Ancient Greek Government , edited by Hans Beck, John Wiley & Sons, first published 2013

Merker in ‘ The Ancient Kingdom of Paionia ,’ Balkan Studies 6 (1965), p. 44 ( download pdf ) In any [skip] The Ancient Paionians may of may not have been Greek, but they certainly became Greek-ish and In Ancient Historiography on War and Empire , Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 177-187. L. " The Ancient Kingdom of Paionia ." Balkan Studies , vol. 6, 1965, p. 44. ( download pdf ).  In A Companion to Ancient Thrace (eds J. Valeva, E. Nankov and D. Graninger).

The Goddess Tellus This Mosaic gives a 3rd century view of Tellus, an ancient Roman goddess. Warren Esty has an excellent educational website with 6 pages of coins in the broad category of: " Ancient -Carole Raddato, Following Hadrian One ancient source is Cassius Dio: While the emperor was tarrying The following comment comes to mind as we try to imagine how an ancient Roman would see the figure of "So much depends on who is looking, from ancient master or ancient slave to eighteenth-century connoisseur

The calendar of the Roman Republic fell short more than 10 days each year which meant that the seasons For not only in very ancient times was the relation of the lunar to the solar year in great confusion However, the calendar was running fast by 11 min and 14 seconds a year, which by AD 1582 had become 10 ending in 00 only if they are divisible by 400 (eliminating 3 leap years every 400 years) – he also took 10

ISSN 0021-8286), Vol. 36, Part 1, No. 122, p. 21 - 27 (2005) David Vagi, 2014, Eagles and dolphins on ancient CoinWorld Moesia Istrus Drachm , Money Museum Tyler Rossi, 2021, The Mystery of the Double-Headed Coins of Ancient