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A Statuette from Old kingdom of Egypt
Only the upper half of this granite statuette of a seated man has survived. The inscriptions on the back of the statuette read "offerings given of the king to Bastet mistress of Bast for the ka of ". The inscriptions...
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Head of a Bearded Man from the Musasir Kingdom
This is the upper part of a sandstone statue which was found near Rowanduz village, modern Sulaimaniya Governorate, Iraq. The lack of inscriptions on this statue make it difficult to determine who this...
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Curse Tablet from Pella, Ancient Kingdom of Macedonia
Pella curse tablet, lead scroll, first half of the 4th century BCE. Writing and dedicating a curse tablet (katadesmos) was an act of practical magic in the Greco-Roman world. Curse tablets were fragmental...
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Map of the Kingdom of the Vandals (435–534 CE)
The Kingdom of the Vandals and Alans (435–534 CE) emerged as one of the most significant post-Roman states in the western Mediterranean. Founded after the Vandals, a Germanic people originally from Central...
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Aethelwulf of Wessex
Aethelwulf (r. 839-858) was King of Wessex, a region in modern-day Britain, son and successor to Egbert of Wessex (r. 802-839), who had unified and expanded his kingdom with Aethelwulf's assistance. Aethelwulf fought at the...
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Mutapa
Mutapa (aka Matapa, Mwenemutapa, and Monomotapa) was a southern African kingdom located in the north of modern Zimbabwe along the Zambezi River which flourished between the mid-15th and mid-17th century CE. Although sometimes described...
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Map of the New Kingdom of Egypt, 1450 BCE
A map showing the maximum territorial extent of the New Kingdom of Egypt, ca. 1450 BCE.
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Magadha Kingdom
A map showing the extent of the ancient kingdom of Magadha in India from the 6th to 4th century BCE.
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Kingdom of Jerusalem at the Time of the Crusades
This map depicts the Kingdom of Jerusalem (existed 1099-1291 CE), along with the Counties of Tripoli, Edessa, and Antioch.
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Map of the Kingdom of Northumbria
A map of the Kingdom of Northumbria (c. 604-954 CE) in the northeast of Britain c. 802 CE.