According to Herodotus in the pharaonic Egypt there were physicians for every organ. Numerous medicaments were used, along with magical ceremonies and enchantments (Herodotus, 1989). Hovewer, nothing relate to psoriasis in their medical papyruses. In the largest writing, the Ebers papyrus written about the 15th century BC, found in 1873 in Luxor, numerous skin diseases were described (paragraph...

Mithraism was a mystery religion centered on the god Mithras that was practiced in the ancient world, including India, Iran, Anatolia, Etc. Despite numerous documents such as the most ancient religious books of the world including the Avesta and Rig Veda, and the oldest inscriptions Including: Boğazköy and Achaemenid inscriptions, and finding hundreds of temples in the territory of ancient Rome...

Abstract Of the many accounts of Battle Milvian Bridge in a.d. 312 written soon after conflict, only those Eusebius Caesarea have Maxentius cross Tiber on a bridge boats to face forces Constantine. This detail, it is here argued, suggests that may be seen as latter-day Xerxes, Persian emperor who, preparation for his invasion Greece 480 b.c. , famously spanned Hellespont with pair boat-bridges....

As is widely accepted by scholars, much of the Western philosophies have roots in ancient Greece. Among the most influential ancient Greek figures is the “Father of History,” Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who chronicled the history of the Persian Wars. Herodotus used the Histories as a medium for discussing the political trends of his time, specifically those in Athens. Herodotus shared his views...

framework. Instead, most saw the events in far more personal and local terms: the loss of a friend, the effect on a town or community, the Rethinking History 299 impact on their family or jobs (Kazin 2003). Using similar electronic techniques, researchers are already probing the Syllabus Finder database to investigate a variety of themes, such as the changing role of race and ethnicity in under...

In offering a brief sketch of some aspects of Herodotus’ use of lyric poetry I shall restrict myself to melic poetry. I shall start with explicit allusions, and then turn to some passages for which Herodotus’ source must have been lyric poetry, and indeed rather grand lyric poetry, though he conceals this. We learn something about his principles and methodology, but also about the diffusion of ...

In large scale document digitalization of hand written and printed documents, they are scanned and stored in digital form. Since many of these documents are hand written they have errors like angular skewness of words. Skew detection and removal is a part of pre-processing before using OCR software to digitalize the documents. One type of skewness that is most difficult to detect and correct is...