Early Bronze Age Greek Architecture
Drawing of a megaron house One important Early Bronze Age site is the town of Lerna. Lerna has a lot of small stone houses, and one house that is larger than [...]
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07, 2017
What is the Greek Doric order?
Doric temple at Agrigento, in Sicily. The plain square capitals with triglyphs and metopes over them show this is in the Doric order. When did the Doric style get started? [...]
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06, 2017
When did people start riding horses?
Riding horses: Assyrian archer on horseback, ca. 650 BC Riding horses Near the beginning of the Iron Age, about 800 BC, people in Central Asia began riding horses more instead of [...]
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06, 2017
War and battle in ancient Egypt
Victims of civil war in ancient Egypt. They're bound with ropes and have their heads cut off and placed between their legs. (from the Narmer palette, about 3000 BC) Civil [...]
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06, 2017
Ptolemies and Cleopatra – Greek Egypt
Ptolemy I Soter, on a coin (He's trying to look like Alexander) Alexander conquers Egypt In 332 BC Alexander the Great and his Greek army conquered Egypt from the Persians who [...]
