Akkad , ancient region in todays central Iraq . Akkad was the northern (or northwestern) division of ancient Babylonia. The region was roughly in the area where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ( see Tigris-Euphrates ) and their northern boundary extended beyond the boundaries of the
Walker, go and tell Sparta that her children lie here to fulfill her laws . That splendid phrase of Simonides that, in its multiple translations, constitutes the epigraph of the monument to Leonidas at Thermopylae, is too juicy not to take advantage of it in other war memorials with the correspondi
(1). Bare ground leveled, and possibly packed.(2). Status:pile of stones.(3). Audits:rubble aggregated with Roman cement(4). Nucleus:pottery debris aggregated by fine cement(5). Dorsum:polygonal blocks of flint, or rectangular blocks of volcanic tuff or other surrounding stones, forming the surface
The Corinth Canal, which links the gulf of the same name in the northwest of the Peloponnese with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean through a 6.3-kilometre-long waterway, was built at the end of the 19th century, between 1881 and 1893. But the idea was not new, it was several centuries old (even Nero