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King Tiglath-pileser III in a Ceremony
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King Tiglath-pileser III in a Ceremony

The Assyrian King Tiglath-pileser III (reigned 744-727 BCE) wears a ceremonial robe and holding a bow, once facing 2 high officials (no longer preserved but recorded in a drawing). Behind him, stands a beardless attendant holding a spear...
King Tiglath Pileser III Holds a Bow
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King Tiglath Pileser III Holds a Bow

Siege scene depicting the Assyrian king Tiglath Pileser III armed with a bow. Next to him, an Assyrian warrior wears a classical pointed Assyrian helmet and holds a dagger. Alabaster wall relief, from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Mesopotamia...
Yazdegerd III
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Yazdegerd III

Coin of Yazdegerd III (r. 632-651 CE).
Assyrian Warfare
Definition by Joshua J. Mark

Assyrian Warfare

Assyria began as a small trading community centered at the ancient city of Ashur and grew to become the greatest empire in the ancient world prior to the conquests of Alexander the Great and, after him, the Roman Empire. While the Assyrians'...
Zvartnots Cathedral
Definition by James Blake Wiener

Zvartnots Cathedral

The ruins of Zvartnots Cathedral are located on a flat plain within the Ararat Plateau between the cities of Yerevan and Etchmiadzin in Armenia's Armavir province near Zvartnots International Airport. Built in the middle of the 7th century...
Two Statues of Shalmaneser III at the Iraq Museum
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Two Statues of Shalmaneser III at the Iraq Museum

In the centre of this image is the so-called Kurba'il statue of Shalmaneser III (reigned 858-824 BCE), which was found in Fort Shalmaneser in 1961 CE by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. The statue originally stood in the Temple...
Pope Innocent III
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Pope Innocent III

Pope Innocent III (not to be confused with anti-pope Innocent III), r. 1198-1216 CE, is depicted in this print from Chronologia Summorum Romanorum Pontificum, published in 1675 CE. The text at the bottom reads "Innocent III, ". Measures 120...
King Amenhotep III as a Lion
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King Amenhotep III as a Lion

Statue of Amenhotep III, declares the king's might by representing him as a lion, from Napata (Gebel Barkal, Sudan), originally from Soleb (Sudan), 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, 1390-1352 BCE. Pharaohs were often shown as a sphinx...
Tomb Relief of Amenhotep III
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Tomb Relief of Amenhotep III

This limestone relief of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III (c. 1386-1353 BCE) came from the Tomb (TT57) of Khaemhat at Western Thebes (in modern-day Sheikh Abd el-Qurna), Egypt. Amenhotep III was depicted in profile, looking to the right...
Richard III is Tormented by the Ghosts of His Victims
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Richard III is Tormented by the Ghosts of His Victims - Richard III, Act V, Scene III

Richard III of England is tormented by the ghosts of his victims on the eve of his death at the Battle of Bosworth, in Act V Scene III of William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Richard III (c.1594), watercolors by Alexandre Bida, 1893...
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