The Land of Punt - on the east coast of Africa, perhaps as far south as Somalia. Egyptian trade expeditions from the C25th to the C11th BCE for gold, ivory, rare trees, spices etc. Later it became the stuff of legends.

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@ TeamArmada_BCE 様のご依頼によりアイコンを描かせて頂きました!✨

同じLINELIVERとして、依頼して頂けたことがとても嬉しいです😌

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I create manga/webcomics and write film scripts! I'm currently working on Erinys & The Seer (webcomic) and FVRY (film script)

Most of my current projects center around Mycenaean Greece (~1200 BCE) and ancient Greek mythology.

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THE ILIAD - BACKGROUND 

Iliad = the story of Ilium (Troy), the city of Ilus (the grandfather of Priam). The work, 15,693 lines of hexameter, has been called this since the 5th century bce.

https://t.co/lwIxeEXnbx

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Panchatantra (Five Principles) is a colourful collection of animal fables in verse & prose written in Sanskrit , 3rd BCE credited to Vishnu Sharma. This painting is from manuscript of Panchatantra`s one of the story titled as The story of Talkative Turtle 1/3

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Medallion with a winged goddess probably from Eastern Iran, 2nd century BCE.
Gilded silver, diameter 12 cm

https://t.co/3VFaJMIv42

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Hellenistic amethyst intaglio depicting a maenad holding a thyrsus in one hand and a phallus in the other, dated to the 2nd century BCE. The intaglio is set in a modern gold ring.

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Opium has been actively collected since prehistoric times, since approximately 3400 BCE. The upper Asian belt of Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, and Burma still account for the world's largest supply of opium. And there is a city called opium in Turkey

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Roman Republic in 44 BCE, at the time of the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar whom many modern historians chronologically mark as the Emperor zero.

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Sometime around 2686 BCE, Upper Egypt (King Menes/Narmer) came north and invaded Lower Egypt, unifying the two kingdoms under a single ruler who took the title of pharaoh and wore a double crown.

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Hippopotamus devouring of a crocodile, 1st century carnelian intaglio in latter setting. https://t.co/JJ4PG7zcGd
I remembered the ring, Alexandria, Hellenistic period, 2nd-1st C BCE https://t.co/bnNGiOAvk9

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in 323 BCE, the worlds greatest twink, Alexander III of Macedon, passed away due to mysterious circumstances. Thought I would commemorate this wide eyed boys memory with a quick drawing. 🐏 🏳️‍🌈

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My version of Neolithic figurine from Cuccuru in Arrius, Sardinia. Grave find, 4000-3400 BCE

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Semiramis,
ancient Iraq, 811 BCE, Queen of Babylon

For the book: Heroines of the Middle East.
pikku publishing house

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Vilius Petrauskas, Siege of Nineveh capital of Assyrian Empire, (612 BCE)

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On here are an exquisite bit of Cretan filigree jewelry from-almost unbelievably-7th century BCE & a gold plaque depicting the Bee-Goddess Melissa from Rhodes about 1,000 years later. She fed the baby Zeus honey not milk as in top of Poussin pic. He loved her for it

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I traced a picture of myself and redrew me in the Ancient Minoan Civilization city of Knossos in period accurate clothing circa. 1600 BCE. (sorry)

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In the background on the left is the "Terme Boxer," 4th–1st century BCE bronze currently in the Palazzo Massimo in Rome, Italy (18/24)

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