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Dead Sea Scrolls - The War Scroll
The War Scroll, part of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at Quram, Israel which were composed between the 3rd century BCE and the 1st century CE.
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Sea Hurricanes
A 1941 photograph of a flight of Sea Hurricanes, the naval equivalent of the RAF Hawker Hurricane fighter plane. (Imperial War Museums)
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Sea of Galilee
Painting by Vasily Polenov, 1899.
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The Coastal Landscape of Wadden Sea, Northern Germany
Brown grass on a body of water at Norden, Germany.
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James Armistead Lafayette
James Armistead Lafayette (l. c. 1748-1832) was an African American Patriot who served the Continental Army as a spy during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). During the Siege of Yorktown, he infiltrated the British camp to bring...
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Interview: The Mysterious Bronze Age Collapse with Eric Cline
The decline of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East has puzzled historians and archaeologists for centuries. While many have ascribed the collapse of several civilizations to the enigmatic Sea Peoples, Professor...
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Philistines
The Philistines populated the coastal regions of Canaan from the 12th century BCE to their disappearance in 604 BCE. The word "Philistine" derives from the Hebrew ha-Plištim for the combination of several tribes of Syria and Judea with the...
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Black-Figure Vase with Amazons
This black-figure vessel portrays Amazon warriors and Greeks battling each other. Attributed to the Group of Rhodes, c. 540 BCE. Black-figure pottery. 12.9 x 25.4 cm (5 1/16 x 10 in). (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Scythians
The Scythians were a nomadic people whose culture flourished between the 7th and 3rd century BCE in a territory ranging from Thrace in the west, across the steppe of Central Asia, to the Altai Mountains of Mongolia in the east. This covers...
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Black-figured amphora (wine-jar) signed by Exekias as potter and attributed to him as painter
Greek, about 540-530 BC Made in Athens, Greece; found at Vulci (now in Lazio, Italy) Achilles killing the Amazon Queen Penthesilea Penthesilea brought her Amazon warriors to help the Trojans defend their city, but was killed in combat...