The wise Solomon was Israel's 3rd king from 965 BC to 925 BC, the son of King David (from the story of David and Goliath), and the owner of an enormous harem and incommensurate wealth gathered by means of mining and trading. H. Rider Haggard's best-selling novel, “King Solomon's Mines,” fue... |
28 October 2008
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1. The fertile banks of the Nile River offered several annual crops, as many floodings the river produced. The farmers would eagerly wait for the flooding, because after the water's retreat, the fields remained covered with a thick layer of mud on which the crops grew rapidly. This condition boosted the existenc... |
30 January 2008
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Those fascinated by the ancient Egypt have been waiting for this moment for 85 years, since the discovery of the famous mummy of the 19-year-old "Boy Pharaoh" by Howard Carter: as from yesterday the public can see the 3,000-year-old face of Tutankhamon in his tomb in the famous Valley of the Kings.The mummy has a shr... |
5 November 2007
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Hugh Hefner is a poor amateur: the king of Swaziland, Mswati III, 39-year old, had to choose from amongst 100,000 chanting, bare-breasted maidens who have paraded before him so that he could choose his 14th wife. A special honor for the Swazi girls. The maidens are dispatched by King Mswati III to cut the reeds on th... |
5 September 2007
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On November 19, 1703, in the fortress prison of Bastille, Paris, a mysterious character of unknown identity died. His face was covered by a mask of black velvet cloth since he was made prisoner 25 years before, and his guardians had received the order to kill him if he uncovered his face or addressed other issues tha... |
10 August 2007
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These mighty warriors dominated the Balkans during a period ranging from the Indo-European invasion till their Roman conquest. The Thracian civilization was at least similar in terms of development to the ancient Greeks.Now, archaeologists have found a 2,400-year-old golden mask that once belonged to a Thracian king ... |
17 July 2007
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The tomb of King Herod the Great, who ruled Israel when Jesus was born, the legendary builder of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, has just been discovered by an Israeli archaeologist. The Hebrew University announced this late Monday. The tomb is located in a site named Herodium, a flattened hilltop in the Negev Deser... |
9 May 2007
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