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Born for Valhalla: How Viking Children Learned the Art of War
... from farming families were probably also playing war games. Historians believe that even three-year-old boys ... with weapons, wrestling was one of the most popular games and something boys were doing throughout the year. ...
ancient-origins - 16/01/2018 - 14:01
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The Gladiators Priscus and Verus: Equal they Fought, Equal they Yielded
... to have celebrated its opening by holding inaugural games that lasted for about a hundred days. Apart from ... Gladiatorial Fight One of the highlights of the inaugural games must have been the battle between Priscus and Verus. ... at: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/martial_on_the_games_of_domitian_01_text.htm Perrottet, T., 2004. ...
dhwty - 21/12/2017 - 20:17
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“We Don't Need No Education!” – The History of Childhood
... well educated, well looked after, and well stocked with games, toys, and extracurricular activities. This is not only ... apprenticeships. The painting called ‘Children's Games’ from the 16 th century, depicting children playing ...
B. B. Wagner - 27/05/2020 - 13:03
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Snow Snake, The Ancient Native American Winter Sport, Gets Popular
... 2019 Ganondagan State Historic Site Native American winter games. (DanielPenfield / CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Snow Snake: A Game ... “The Indians are also said to have many capital games on the ice, and I had the opportunity, at any rate, to ...
Nathan Falde - 24/02/2021 - 17:21
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Girls Gone Wild: World Mythology’s Most Sexualized, Crazed, and Furiously Violent Goddesses
... and sexual liberation. Leading a life full of joy, games, pleasure, excess, and drunkenness, when she rebelled ...
ashley cowie - 12/12/2018 - 23:01
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Enchanting Hidden 'Sphinx' Chamber Discovered At Nero’s Golden Palace
... remains such as the Colosseum, the site of gladiatorial games . There is also the Arch of Constantine and the Forum, ... an armed man, and this may be a depiction from the Roman Games when men regularly fought wild animals. Fresco of an ...
Ed Whelan - 10/05/2019 - 16:57
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4,000-Year-Old Lost Mesopotamian City Discovered in Iraq
A 4,000-year-old lost city has been discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to researchers.
“We weren’t expecting to discover a city here at all,” said Christine Kepinski, who explored the site, according to the French National Center for Scientific Research journal.
ancient-origins - 08/04/2019 - 18:56
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Mahavira: Abandoning Luxury to Revive Jainism
“A living body is not merely an integration of limbs and flesh but it is the abode of the soul which potentially has perfect perception (Anant-darshana), perfect knowledge (Anant-jnana), perfect power (Anant-virya), and perfect bliss (Anant-sukha).”
-Mahavira as quoted in ‘Jainism and Indian Civilization’ (2004) by Raj Pruthi.dhwty - 14/06/2018 - 01:57
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Oldest Gaming Tokens Found in Turkey
... gaming pieces ever found and confirming that board games likely originated and spread from the Fertile Crescent ... said. Archaeological records indicate that board games were widely played in Mesopotamia. Several beautifully ...
aprilholloway - 16/08/2013 - 09:57
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Trading in the Bronze Age: Living the High Life in the Great City of Ugarit
Ugarit is an ancient city located on the coast of Syria. The ruins of this site are in the form of a tell (or mound) known as Ras Shamra, and are situated 10 km (6.2 miles) to the north of Latakia, the main port city of the country. This was an important city from about 1450 BC to 1200 BC, after which it was completely abandoned.
dhwty - 19/01/2017 - 03:48
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Heralds: Diplomats, Referees, and the Ultimate Power on the Battlefield
... as we think of them today. They were massive war games, where the goal was to capture the other side's ... of who was who and which side they represented. As war games, these tournaments could be incredibly dangerous, and ... but also who was dying and how. In the chaos of the games, it was important that deaths and injuries were not ...
Robbie Mitchell - 06/11/2022 - 21:55
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Danger on the Court: The Deadly Ancient Mesoamerican Ball Game
... before the establishment of the first Greek Olympic Games. A fast-paced, often brutal game tied in with ... ball game "A Comparison of Mayan and Aztec Ball Games." A Comparison of Mayan and Aztec Ball Games. April 22, 2014. ...
Bryan Hill - 28/04/2020 - 20:11
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My Name Is Heracles, And I Have Father Issues
... Hera was both intense and incestuous. From early on, their games of flirtation consisted of charm and excitement. ...
B. B. Wagner - 15/08/2019 - 22:59
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May Day’s Weird and Wonderful Pagan Roots
... It was also a time for the Ludi Florales (six days of games), which was paid for by fines collected when public ... encroached upon. Cicero mentions his role in organizing games for Flora when he was aedile (a Roman magistrate in ...
Joanna Gillan - 01/05/2019 - 18:50
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Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of Huge Viking Camp in England
... Researchers determined the Vikings repaired ships, played games, melted loot of gold and silver to use in trade, and ... women and children, were spending a lot of time playing games to pass the time, waiting for spring and the start of ...
Mark Miller - 19/05/2017 - 22:59
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Theagenes of Thasos: From Legendary Olympic Fighter to God-Healer
... 476 BC. In addition, he won three times in the Pythian Games, nine times in the Nemean and ten times in the ... BY 2.5 ) “The achievements of Theagenes at the Olympian games have already – the most famous of them – been ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 17/01/2017 - 14:53
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Kasivaki: An Ancient Tongan Game That Was More Than Underwater Rugby
... for having any sort of prestige or power. Irish Sporting Games: A Big Event 1,000 Years Before Greek Olympics 4 ... game that might have been similar to the ancient Olympic games in the Mediterranean world and the ballgame of ... Alexis. n.d. The Ancient Olympics and Other Athletic Games . Metropolitan Museum of Art Perspectives. Available ...
Caleb Strom - 06/12/2021 - 17:57
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It's not how you play the game, but how the dice were made
... new ideas about fairness, and chance or probability in games." Great Salt Lake of Utah gives up its Prehistoric ... Olympics Fun for Everyone: The Evolving History of Board Games Selection of Roman era dice and jetons (tokens). ( CC0 ...
ancient-origins - 07/02/2018 - 01:54
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Myths from Mesopotamia
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of great strength, whose heroic quest for immortality is dashed through one moment of weakness.
ancient-origins - 24/11/2017 - 22:53
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Rediscovering Iconic Artifacts From Noah’s Flood In The Stars
The story of a primordial, global Deluge popularized in the Noah’s Ark narrative endures as one of antiquity’s most baffling enigmas. Old Testament theologians unanimously agree that the Biblical Flood story is a sixth-century BC reworking of a narrative that originated in Mesopotamia. The first reference to a great Flood appears as a two-sentence factoid in the circa 2050 BC Sumerian King List.
John McHugh - 14/01/2022 - 20:10