# hittites

1st European map of Tenochtitlan, capital of Aztec Empire, made in 1524 CE.

Mural of city made by Diego Rivera in 1945. City was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco, left Hernán Cortes' men in awe and many of them wondered if they were dreaming.

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Mankind's Oldest Gold (4600-4200 BC) was found in Tomb 43, in Varna Necropolis (Varna Cemetery) on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast.

Archaeologists discovered Tomb 43, contains remains of a high-status man who appeared to be some kind of ruler/leader.

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A 12th Century CE, illustration depicting the seven liberal arts: grammar, rhetoric, and logic (the trivium) and geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy (the quadrivium).

British Library

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A 14th Century CE; Mamluk Miniature, Warriors wrestling on red horses and kky horses. Red (Red-Al) and Sky (Blue-Turquoise) colors are a color symbolism that Turks still use in their flags.

Topkapi Palace Museum Library

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Origin of school as it is known in present day dates back to ancient Egypt. About 4000 years ago, Kheti was a high official at court of Pharaoh Mentuhotep II.

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2/ chapter one introduces the main themes of the book: ancient Egyptian ideology & relations with the Hittite empire

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On 18th August 1227 CE, Genghis Khan passed away, whilst campaigning at Yinchuan, capital of Western Xia.

‘The real cause of Cinggis’ death is unknown, and was certainly unknown also to most people at the time'.

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The modern recreation of the Homo Erectus female who believed about 200 thousand years ago. (The Great Mother of the Netherlands) Leiden Museum Netherlands.

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One of illustrations from mysterious Clavis Artis manuscript; known as alchemical manuscript published in Germany; between end of 17th and beginning of 18th Century CE.

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Romans described war chariot as currus falcatus, was equipped with scythes called falces, placed on both sides of wheel axle and at drawbar. Roman army basically did not use chariots for military purposes, at most
as a parade or means of transport for couriers.

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Oldest culinary treaty to survive in its entirety, “De Re Culinaria”, written in 1st century CE by a Roman merchant and food lover named Marcus Gavius Apicius.

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“Blue Bird” fresco depicts a blue bird sitting among plants on a rock
in a mountainous landscape.
Part of a large landscape fresco that once decorated spacious room of a house west of palace of Knossos, “House of frescoes, 1600-1500 BC, at Knossos, Crete.

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An erotic fresco of the Greek myth of 'Leda and the swan', discovered in Pompeii. (late 2nd - early 1st Century BC)

In Greek mythology the God Zeus takes the form of a swan and seduces or rapes Leda.

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“You are creating gods and heavens for yourself because you do not want to admit that you are mortal.”

- Attila the Hun

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Minoan fresco of the "Saffron Gatherer"; 1600-1450 BC.

It was uncovered in the prehistoric city of Akrotiri at Santorini, Greece.

Photo: u/Synchronyme

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3 years ago, a richly equipped grave of a young, at most 18 years old, archer was discovered in Kazakhstan.

Now gold of Sakas, a nomadic people who lived 2500 years ago in Central Asia, can be seen at a unique exhibition at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

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Vertumnus is an oil painting produced by Giuseppe Arcimboldo in 1591 that consists of multiple fruits, vegetables and flowers that come together to create a portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.

Skokloster Castle

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Sculptors at Work, Tomb of Rekhmire, 1479–1425 B.C. New Kingdom. reign of Thutmose III–early Amenhotep II, tempera on Paper, by Nina de Garis Davies (1881–1965).

The original mural comes from Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb of Rekhmire.

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