Ancient Near East

Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit

The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship. An Exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. The Library's exhibition describes the historical context of the scrolls and the Qumran community from whence they may have originated; it also relates the story of their discovery 2,000 years later. In addition, the exhibition encourages a ...

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Les Petroglyphes du Fujairah

(Emirats Arabes Unis). Grégoire de Ceuninck - page personnelle....

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Finnish Archaeological Project in Petra

Monastery on the Mount of Aaron. Magnificent and mysterious Petra is known best for its royal tombs cut in soft sandstone. Being the most important tourist site in Jordan today, the city used to serve as the center of trade and agriculture in the area at the crosspoint of great caravan routes. Charred papyri from 513 A.D., found in an excavated chu...

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National Museum of Asian Art

The Freer Gallery Of Art and The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - The National Museum of Asian Art For the United States...

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Second Temple Synagogues

This site is devoted to the study of Second Temple Synagogues""that is, synagogues which existed prior to the Jerusalem Temple's destruction in year 70 A.D....

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Parthian Empire (coins)

The coins and history of asia. In 247 BC, Arsaces, leader of a Scythian group in Central Asia called the Parni (a branch of the Dahae) is crowned king. He overthrows the Seleucid governor of Parthia in 238 BC and establishes a nation that lasts for almost 500 years. 95 - 57 BC is referred to as the Parthian 'dark age,' and civil wars make the chron...

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Parthian Empire 2 (coins)

The coins and history of asia. About Parthian related coins - Saka/Sacaraucae issues, Sanabares, Farn-Sasan, etc. [Persian Empire] [coins]...

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Arabia (coins)

Several small kingdoms that existed in what is now Syria, Jordan and the southern Arabian penninsula, bordering the Indian Ocean and Red Sea (modern Yemen). [Ancient Near East] [Coins]...

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Romaion/Byzantine Empire (coins)

Renamed Constantinople in 330 AD, the ancient city of Byzantion gave its name to a combined Greek and Roman culture that lasted for almost 1000 years. The `Byzantines` never referred to each other as such; they called themselves Romaioi, the Greek word for Roman. In 1453 AD, the Ottoman Turks overran Constantinople, putting an end to the Romaioi an...

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Sasanian 4 (coins) Sasanian Empire

The coins and history of asia [Persian Empire] [coins]...

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