Quotes About Ancient

The whole of the Middle East, up to the River Tigris, was returned to Roman rule.

Crete is home to an advanced civilisation that will be dubbed 'Minoan'

the island's legendary king, Minos, when its remains are discovered three and a half millennia later.

the four characters: ti-ri-po-de, meaning 'two tripods'.)

The Phoenician script was in effect a syllabary.

already more than a thousand years old before anyone ever lived on this bare stretch of desert shore.

brought by barge down the Nile from temples hundreds of miles away

Alexander, son of Philip, and the Hellenes, excluding the Lacedaemonians

The sun first catches the tops of the pyramids of Giza, which are already some fifteen hundred years old.

the Greeks mounted a mighty expedition to bring her back.

But in 1500 BCE, they are not ruled directly from Hattusa.

the stadium at Olympia was enlarged in the fifth century BCE, it could accommodate a crowd of forty thousand

This is the kingdom of the Hittites.

Pericles was among its victims. It was the first pandemic in recorded history. Thucydides, who himself became infected

it has been estimated that the Iliad would have taken three full days to perform before an audience

Socrates had been born in Athens in 469 BCE. His career would span the entire second half of the century

the distant origin of the Greek language may reach all the way back to the beginning of the period that we call the Neolithic

is called Wilusa by the Hittites and Wilios, later Ilios or Ilion, by the Greeks

eventually to become known by the alternative Greek name, which may be no less ancient, Troy (Troia).

perhaps even thousands, before our imagined Aegean dawn in the year 1500 BCE.

Buried in what he termed 'shaft graves', Schliemann uncovered the remains of the families

that had ruled there between about 1600 and 1450 BCE.

Buried with them was a fearsome array of swords, daggers, and spearpoints

Athenian politician Lycurgus pronounced the obituary in 330 BCE