More than 3,000 years ago, ancient Egyptian artists flubbed a royal ... who was buried near Thebes (modern day Luxor). In the painting, the pharaoh has some stubble on his face and is facing ...

Moreover, the texts and the paintings are the source of information concerning the people and cultures of neighbouring countries: Nubia, the country of Punt, Libya, as well as Syria and the Hittite ...

The Sacred Band of Thebes was ancient Greece’s savage gift to anyone still facing opponents of gays in the military today. An elite military force, this platoon of egregiously out warriors ...

Ancient Greece is often credited with numerous innovations ... One of the most remarkable military units was the Sacred Band ...

Some of the earliest texts about deaths in plagues and war from ancient Greece emphasize the difference between the ... or “Oedipus the King,” when a plague afflicts the city of Thebes. An oracle says ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... glorious palaces decorated with beautiful wall paintings. Image caption, Artwork of a bull on a ...

The ancient ... Greece’s first professional standing army, housed and fed by the city. They first saw action in the spring of 378 B.C., when Sparta tried to seize the farmlands around Thebes.

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Greece’s second largest city ... “This project offers a remarkable blend of the ancient and modern, integrating archaeological heritage with metro infrastructure ...

2007 Report on the Mission to Islamic Cairo and Thebes with its Necropolis, 29 April - 4 May 2007 2001 ICOMOS Mission Report, Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis Conservation issues presented to the ...