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unusual facts about Ancient history



Cratloe

As Cratloe was an important pass in both ancient times and more recent times, the area around the village is full of interesting sites from antiquity all the up until the Late Middle Ages.

Jochen Bleicken

Jochen Bleicken (3 September 1926 in Westerland, Sylt – 24 February 2005 in Hamburg) was a German professor of ancient history.

Josef Wiesehöfer

Josef Wiesehöfer (born April 5, 1951 in Wickede, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German classical scholar and current professor of Ancient history at the Department of Classics (Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde) of the University of Kiel.

Sofia Metro

Evidence of antiquity can be clearly seen at the Serdika Station which exhibits a wealth of unearthed Thracian and Roman ruins and modern architecture.


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Andrew McGowan

He studied classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia (BA 1983), during which time he was a member of the rock band The Triffids, then returning to Melbourne to study theology at Trinity College (BD (Hons) 1986).

Baliga

The other notable mention is in The Ancient History of South Canara written by Ganapathi Rao Aigal, which mentions one Damarsa Bale, among nine other Samasthas (Noblemen) of Bantwal, signing a copper inscription of offering to Sri Bhadra Narasimha Temple of Manjeshwar.

Battles BC

Battles BC is a 2009 documentary series looking at key battles in ancient history.

Boris Farmakovsky

His excavations at Olbia in 1986, 1901–1915, 1924-1926 provided significant insights into the ancient history of South Ukraine.

Camden Professor of Ancient History

The Camden Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Oxford was established in 1622 by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms, and endowed with the income of the manor of Bexley.

Christopher M. Schroeder

Schroeder graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College in American and Ancient History (where he studied with Lincoln scholar David Herbert Donald) and international diplomacy historian Ernest May.

Cotton production in the United States

Imported from Europe, cotton has an ancient history of over 5000 years, and is also traced to Alexander carrying cotton cloth on his shoulders while returning from India.

Eustace Miles

He was a prolific author on diverse subjects including health (e.g. "Fitness for Play and Work" 1912), athletics ("An Alphabet of Athletics"), diet ("The Failures of Vegetarianism" 1902), ancient history ("A History of Rome up to 500AD, with Essays, Maps and Aids to Memory" 1901) and Classics ("Comparative Syntax of Greek and Latin") with many of his books still available on Amazon.

Francisco García de la Rosa Figueroa

Report of Father Posadas on Texas; three fragments on ancient history, Canticles of Nezahualcoyotl, etc.

Hanezu

The story is set in contemporary time in the Asuka area and recalls the ancient history of the place.

Hath-Set

Hath-Set appears in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Ancient History" where he is voiced by Héctor Elizondo.

History of Sikkim

Not much is known about Sikkim's ancient history, except that the original inhabitants were the Lepcha (or "Rong"), Limbu(Tsong) and Bhutias Sikkim also finds its mention on many Hindu texts as Indrakil or "Garden of Lord Indra."

Léon Cahun

Meanwhile Cahun had begun to publish a series of historical novels dealing with ancient history, in the style of the journeys of Anacharsis in Greece.

Peter Derow

After a spell of teaching at the University of Toronto, he returned to succeed Forrest at Wadham in 1977 when the latter was elected to the Wykeham Professorship of Ancient History at New College.

Piero Giorgio Bordoni

He had many interests besides physics, like ancient history and languages, and wrote witty sonnets in the style of the ‘Romanesco’ poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, inspired by episodes at the university and in the life.

Reviel Netz

From 1983 to 1992, Netz studied at the Tel Aviv University obtaining a B.A. in Ancient History and an M.A. in History and the Philosophy of Science; from 1993 to 1995 studied Classics at Christ's Collge, Cambridge University where he obtained his doctorate in 1995.

Roy and Lesley Adkins

Lesley was brought up and educated in Havant, Hampshire, then at the University of Bristol, gaining a degree in Archaeology, Ancient History and Latin, and later a Master of Philosophy from the University of Surrey.

Sima Biao

He also edited Qiao Zhou's Examination of Ancient History (古史考), altering over two hundred events so they would comply with the Bamboo Annals.

Society to Encourage Studies at Home

Among those involved as teachers were: Ellen Swallow Richards (science), Vida Dutton Scudder (English), Lucretia Crocker (science), Katherine Peabody Loring (history), Alice James (history), Lucy Elliot Keeler (history), Florence Trail (ancient history) and Elizabeth Thorndike Thornton (history).

Stefan Lehmann

Stefan Lehmann studied classical archaeology, ancient history, art history and cultural history in Berlin and at the University of Bonn.

Tim Cornell

He was a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge (1973-75), Assistant Director of The British School at Rome (1975-77), lecturer and senior lecturer in Ancient History at University College London (1978-88, 1988-95).

Wheare

Degory Wheare (1573–1647), historian, the first Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford

William Ouseley

In 1795 he published Persian Miscellanies; in 1797–1799, Oriental Collections; in 1799, Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia; in 1800, The Oriental Geography of Ebn Haukal (The Oriental Geography of Ibn Hawqal);and in 1801, a translation of the Bakhtiyar Nama and Observations on Some Medals and Gems.

William Reginald Halliday

He lectured in Greek History and Archaeology and the University of Glasgow (1911–1914) before becoming Rathbone Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool (1914–1928).