the round city of ardeshir khwarah, with its concentric layout, can be considered as the first city which established by the founder of the sasanian dynasty as a symbol of the sasanian royal ideology. ardeshir khwarah plays a key role in establishment of sasanian sovereignty and urban planning. however, a little is known about the history of the city. it seems even stranger if we consider the r...

Seleucos I and the Cult of Zeus Nikatôr In order to study cult Nikatôr, six Greek inscriptions (one from northern Syria five southern Anatolia) are gathered commented. The origin, diffusion longevity evoked, since it was vivid until IIIrd century A.D. in eastern Mediterranean, mainly Taurus (Pamphylia, Lycia, Pisidia Phrygia Paroreios). Accordingly, also connection with onomastics numismatics, ...

The evolution of the hospital is traced from its onset in ancient Mesopotamia towards the end of the 2nd millennium to the end of the Middle Ages. Reference is made to institutionalised health care facilities in India as early as the 5th century BC, and with the spread of Buddhism to the east, to nursing facilities, the nature and function of which are not known to us, in Sri Lanka, China and S...

In a recent exhibit at the New York Academy of Medicine, I examined the evolution ofteratology (i.e., the study of perceived abnormalities in the natural world, both real and imagined) through the eyes of physicians and philosophers. Based on the exhibit, this paper describes the major interpretations of teratology from Antiquity to the end of the eighteenth century. The term "monster," which i...

The article is devoted to the history of settlement Pripyat Polesye in 1st millennium AD. main attention paid monuments first half AD, their dating and cultural identity. It noted that at present source study base does not allow reliably “make ancient” Slavic Prague culture Polesie until IV century. associate it with post-Zarubinets circle. At end III century BC tribes Zarubintsy came territory...

Aretaeus of Cappadocia is considered as one of the greatest medical scholars of Greco-Roman antiquity after Hippocrates. He presumably was a native or at least a citizen of Cappadocia, a Roman province in Asia Minor (Turkey), and most likely lived around the middle of the second century (A.D.) His eight volume treatise, written in Ionic Greek, entitled On the Causes, Symptoms and Cure of Acute ...

This article aims to show which extent the Arab and Muslim historians geographers are aware of familiar with Byzantine empire’s territories (Roman territories), their information about its administrative military divisions in first eight Hijri centuries (8-14 AD), is period Roman were under rule, later by Seljuk who dominated these after Battle Manzikert 463 AH / 1071 AD, before submission Otto...

This entry presents an overview on how mechanics in Greece was linked to geometry. In ancient Greece, about lifting heavy bodies, and mathematics almost coincided with Mathematics interconnected at least from the 5th century BCE became dominant Hellenistic period. The contributions by thinkers such as Aristotle, Euclid, Archytas fundamental problems that of lever are sketched. can be starting p...

Settlement features containing raw antler material at various stages of manufacturing are not uncommon in Germanic settlements. However, their connection with craft production and subsequent interpretation as workshops producing objects often inferred a priori, without being based on deeper analysis. Many years research into settlement from the late Roman period beginning Migration Zlechov-Padě...

By the time it had reached its zenith during the second-century of the Common Era, the Roman Empire had developed into one of the greatest civilizations the ancient world had ever known. Cities scattered across an imperial region that stretched from the North Sea to the Red Sea had flourished under a well-ordered governing body housed in Rome. These regional centers stood unfortified in the cou...