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111Ancient Iranian Medicine — The practice and study of medicine in Persia has a long and prolific history. The ancient Iranian medicine was combined by different medical traditions from Greece, Egypt, India and China for more than 4000 years and merged to form what became… …
112Ancient literature — History of Literature Bronze Age literature …
113ancient — ancient1 ancientness, n. /ayn sheuhnt/, adj. 1. of or in time long past, esp. before the end of the Western Roman Empire A.D. 476: ancient history. 2. dating from a remote period; of great age: ancient rocks; ancient trees. 3. very old; aged: an… …
114Ancient Libya — History of Libya This article is part of a series Prehistory …
115Ancient accounts of Homer — The ancient accounts of Homer include many passages in archaic and classical Greek poets and prose authors that mention or allude to Homer, and ten biographies of Homer, often referred to as Lives .Date of HomerEstablishing an accurate date for… …
116ancient history — 1) N UNCOUNT Ancient history is the history of ancient civilizations, especially Greece and Rome. 2) N UNCOUNT If you describe something as ancient history, you mean that it happened in the past and is no longer relevant to the present. It does… …
117Ancient Agora of Athens — The Ancient Agora of Athens is the most well known example of agora, located in Athens, Greece.HistoryThe agora in Athens had private housing, until it was reorganized by Peisistratus in the 6th century BC. Although he may have lived on the agora …
118Ancient Greek units of measurement — The ancient Greek system of weights and measures was built mainly upon the Egyptian, and formed the basis of the later Roman system.: Although we might suggest that the Egyptians had discovered the art of measurement, it is really only with the… …
119ancient — I an•cient [[t]ˈeɪn ʃənt[/t]] adj. 1) cv anh of or in time long past, esp. before the end of the Western Roman Empire a.d. 476 2) dating from a remote period: ancient rocks[/ex] 3) very old; aged 4) old in wisdom and experience 5) old fashioned… …
120Ancient Greek flood myths — Greek mythology knows four floods, the sinking of Atlantis, the flood of Dardanus, the flood of Ogyges, and the flood of Deucalion. Two of these ended two of the Ages of Man: the Ogygian Deluge ended the Silver Age, and the flood of Deucalion… …
