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Iceni Territory
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Tacitus on Boudicca's Revolt

Tacitus (full name, Publius Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, ca. 56 &ndash...
Ramesses II at The Battle of Kadesh
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The Battle of Kadesh & the Poem of Pentaur

The Poem of Pentaur is the official Egyptian record (along...
Empire of Cyrus the Great
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Herodotus: On The Customs of the Persians

Herodotus (484-425 BCE) the Greek historian who wrote extensively...
Parmenides of Elea
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Parmenides & the Path of Truth

Parmenides (c. 485 BCE) lived and taught in Elea, a Greek...
Heraclitus of Ephesus
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Heraclitus' Fragments

Heraclitus of Ephesos (c. 500 BCE) saw a unity to the whole of...
Philip II of Macedon
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Diodorus Siculus on Fate and Philip of Macedon

Diodorus Siculus, the 1st century BCE historian, took great pride...
Queen of the Night, Old Babylon
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Herodotus on Babylon

I:192. As to the resources of the Babylonians how great they...
Weighing the Heart, Book of the Dead
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Herodotus on the Egyptians

II:35. The Egyptians in agreement with their climate, which...
Threshing of Grain in Egypt
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Herodotus on Animal Sacrifice in Egypt

II:38. The males of the ox kind they consider to belong to Epaphos...

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