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The Small Temple, Abu Simbel

Abu Simbel

Abu Simbel is an ancient temple complex, originally cut into a solid rock cliff, in southern Egypt and located at the second...
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Internal Dome of Pantheon

Internal Dome of Pantheon

Internal Dome of Pantheon, Rome, Italy. The Pantheon, completed c. 125 CE, is noteworthy, among all surviving Roman temples...

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Abbey of Saint John at Müstair, Switzerland

Abbey of Saint John at Müstair

The Abbey of Saint John at Müstair (German: Benediktinerinnenkloster St. Johann; French: Abbaye Saint-Jean-des-Sœurs...
Agamemnon, Relief of Samothrace

Agamemnon (Play)

The play Agamemnon was written by one of the greatest Greek tragedians Aeschylus (c. 525 – 455 BCE), “Father...
Death Mask of Agamemnon

Agamemnon (King)

Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer’s Illiad. He is presented...
The Siege of Acre, 1291 CE

The Siege of Acre, 1291 CE

The Siege of Acre in 1291 CE was the final fatal blow to Christian Crusader ambitions in the Holy Land. Acre had always...
Roman Theatre, Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica

Augusta Raurica is a former Roman colony and city located on the Rhine River some 11 km (7 miles) east of the modern Swiss...
Romanos IV Histamenon

Romanos IV Diogenes

Romanos IV Diogenes ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1068 to 1071 CE. He was a military emperor, and his policies and campaigns...
Death of Louis IX at Tunis, 1270 CE

Eighth Crusade

The Eighth Crusade of 1270 CE was, like the Seventh Crusade (1248-1254 CE), led by the French king Louis IX (r. 1226-1270...
Saint Gall

Saint Gall

Saint Gall (c. 550 - c. 645 CE), also known as Saint Gallus, was an Irish monk who lived in what is present-day Switzerland...

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