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5 hours ago · Nebhepetra Mentuhotep II (c.2055-2004 BC) was the founder of the Middle Kingdom, ruling from Thebes during the Eleventh Dynasty. His innovative funerary complex was the first to be built at Deir el-Bahri, and was the model for the later temples of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut. Sadly, as Geoffrey Lenox-Smith accurately pointed out in AE 136 ...
5 hours ago · Canaan (/ ˈ k eɪ n ən /; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – KNʿN; [1] Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənāʿan; Biblical Greek: Χαναάν – Khanaán; [2] Arabic: كَنْعَانُ – Kan‘ān) was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.
1 day ago · The original tomb was destroyed by the Ottomans during the conversion of the church into a mosque. [94] Upon the capture of Constantinople in 1261 by the Empire of Nicaea and the emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, (r. 1261–1282), the church was in a dilapidated state. In 1317, emperor Andronicus II Palaeologus (r.
1 day ago · Darius I (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayavaʰuš; c.550 – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE. He ruled the empire at its territorial peak, when it included much of Western Asia, parts of the Balkans (Thrace ...
1 day ago · House. Capetian House of Anjou. Father. Louis I of Hungary. Mother. Elizabeth of Bosnia. Jadwiga(Polish:[jadˈviɡa]ⓘ; 1373 or 1374 – 17 July 1399), also known as Hedwig(Hungarian: Hedvig), was the first woman to be crowned as monarch of the Kingdom of Poland. She reigned from 16 October 1384 until her death.
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5 hours ago · Mehmed II was born on 30 March 1432, in Edirne, then the capital city of the Ottoman state. His father was Sultan Murad II (1404–1451) and his mother Hüma Hatun , a slave of uncertain origin. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
