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Interview: Barry Strauss on Ten Caesars
Dr. Barry Strauss' Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine tells the epic story of the Roman Empire from its rise to its eastern reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and...
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Greek Alphabet
The Greek Alphabet developed from the Phoenician script at some point around the 8th century BCE. The earlier Mycenaean Linear B script, used primarily for lists and inventories, had been lost during the Greek Dark Age, and the technology...
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Ten Caesars by Barry Strauss
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
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Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette (l. 1755-1793) was the queen of France during the turbulent final years of the Ancien Régime and the subsequent French Revolution (1789-1799). With the ascension of her husband Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792), she became...
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Author Talk: The Scythians with Barry Cunliffe
Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe...
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The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe with Barry Cunliffe
Sir Barry Cunliffe has been Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford for 35 years and is Fellow of the British Academy. In this talk, he discusses his new book "The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe", a masterful...
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The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe | Barry Cunliffe | Talks at Google
Sir Barry Cunliffe has been Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford for 35 years and is Fellow of the British Academy. In this talk, he discusses his latest book "The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe" (Sep. 2019...
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Red Cloud's War
Red Cloud's War (1866-1868) was a conflict between the Lakota Sioux-Cheyenne-Arapaho alliance and the US government over the westward expansion of the United States into the Powder River territory. It was the only war won by the Plains Indians...
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Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto
Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto, painting by William Henry Powell, 1853.
Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C.
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War Chief Gall of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux
Native American Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux War Chief Gall taken by D. F. Barry and hand signed and inscribed by Barry to the famous Indian Fighter and US Army General Charles King, 1880s.