admin | August 19, 2011
Ancient Judean Looking for pics of ancient Judean military armor? Google Image is being un-helpful. I’m mostly getting pics of modern Israeli soldiers How ancient? Early Hebrew armies lacked metal armour,only kings and perhaps the Royal Champion ever using any. The armies of the Maccabees in the 2nd century BC saw armour limited to generals [...]
admin | August 9, 2011
Statue Ancient Why are many of the ancient statues made nude? i think its usually greek well now did they have to show ALL of that beauty? The Greeks developed a realism that was acknowledging the beauty of the human form. And were also illustrating the ideal human form or what they considered to be [...]
admin | July 22, 2011
Antiquities Ancient How did people greet in the past? Instead of the modern handshake, or kiss on the cheek, or kissing the hand, or just saying hi, what was the practice of greeting someone in ancient times, antiquity and the middle ages? I heard that the handshake developed in the 19th century, so what was [...]
admin | July 20, 2011
Ancient Egyptian Faience
admin | July 17, 2011
Queen Nefertari Compare and contrast Queen Nefertiti, Nefertari, and Tiy? Can anyone give me some things that were similar AND different between these women? Thanks I have consulted all of my usual source materials at hand, trying to guess at different spellings, etc. The only name I can find is Nefertiti and I am told [...]
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