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- Black Sea Starts to Yield a Rich Ancient History
- By Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post, Monday
20 January 2003. The
Black Sea project
was begun in 1997 to explore the consequences of an apocalyptic flood 7,500 years ago that transformed a freshwater lake into a sterile salt sea undisturbed by the shipworms and other sea creatures that consume wooden ships. Spectacular archaeological findings in 1999 and 2000. - MacLeod explores one of greatest cultural adornments of late ancient world
- Arabic News 29 April 2002. The Library of Alexandria explores one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world. The origins of the ‘vanished library’ of Alexandria lie in the great library of Pisistratus in Athens, which set the tone for establishing a dominant culture and inspired Alexander the Creat to build a library of his own. Review of a new book edited by MacLeod.
- Aleppo: An ancient city molded by a history of commerce
- Arabic News, 2 December 1998. Under the Seleucids, the Syrian city of Aleppo came into prominence and played an important part in the economy of its old kingdom as a Tigris trade stop on one of the main routes between Antioch and the Euphrates.
- Zenobia: Queen of valor and chastity
- Arabic News, 3 May 2001. By around the year
200 AD, the ancient Syrian kingdom of Palymra was honored
with the title of Roman colony. Queen Zenobia proclaimed
the independence of Palmyra in the name of her young son,
Vaballath
King of Kings.
A Roman expedition was defeated, Egypt and Asia Minor invaded, and overnight a merchant empire appeared stretching from the Nile to the Caucasus. - New book suggests that the rich used subsidized wine and sex, not just bread and circuses, to placate the ‘little people’
- By Rory Carroll, The Guardian, Wednesday 14 June 2000. The ancient Roman city of Pompeii seethed with massive economic inequality and resentment, which plutocrats tried to quell with subsidized sex, wine and gladiatorial spectacles for the masses, a new book says.