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Ancient Olympic pentathlon
Ancient Olympic pentathlon: five-event Greek contest introduced in 708 BC, combining stadion race, long jump, discus, javelin, and wrestling; victor decided by elimination, with three wins sufficient but the full scoring method still unknown.
Ancient One
The Ancient One, also called Yao, is Marvel Comics' Sorcerer Supreme who trained Doctor Strange, first appearing in 1961-1963 comics and dying in Marvel Premiere #10 (1973); the MCU recast the Tibetan male character as a Celtic woman played by Tilda Swinton.
Ancient Order of Hibernians
The Ancient Order of Hibernians, also known as the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America, is a Catholic Irish-American fraternal organization founded in New York City in 1836.
Ancient philosophy
Ancient philosophy: Greek and Roman philosophical thought from the sixth-century BCE Presocratics through Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic schools (Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism) to the closing of the Athenian schools in 529 CE.
Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture, the building tradition of Rome and its empire (27 BC–AD 476), known for concrete, arches, vaults, domes, aqueducts, baths, amphitheaters, and self-healing lime–pozzolana mortar.
Ancient Roman cuisine
Ancient Roman cuisine: the cooking of Rome from Republic to empire, based on cereals, vegetables, olive oil, and wine, with garum fish sauce, multi-course cena banquets, class-divided diets, and trade-sourced spices.
Ancient Roman philosophy
Ancient Roman philosophy is the reception and Latin adaptation of Greek philosophical schools by Roman writers, above all Cicero, whose vocabulary made Latin the leading philosophical language until the Renaissance.
Ancient Roman units of measurement
Ancient Roman units of measurement, or Roman units, were the length, weight, capacity, and area units used in Rome and its empire, based on the foot, pound, and sextarius.
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome, the Roman civilization from the legendary founding of 753 B.C.E. through the Republic and the Empire to the western fall in 476 C.E., defined by Senate rule under the Republic, the Augustan settlement, Caracalla's 212 A.D. citizenship grant, and survival of the eastern Byzantine half to 1453.
Ancient Semitic religion
Ancient Semitic religion covers the cults of Semitic-speaking peoples (Akkadians, Amorites, Arameans, Canaanites/Ugaritians), known chiefly from the Ugaritic archive of about 1,500 texts, with El, Baal, and Athirat heading a tiered pantheon.
Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples
Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples: speakers of Akkadian, Eblaite, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Aramaic, Sabaic, and Ge'ez across the ancient Near East. 'Semitic' (coined 1781, from Shem) is a linguistic, not ethnic, label; family origin estimated ~5,750 YBP in the Levant.
Ancient Siam
Ancient Siam (Muang Boran, เมืองโบราณ), also called Ancient City, is a private open-air museum in Samut Prakan, Thailand, founded by Lek Viriyaphant in 1963, with over 116 Thai monuments laid out on Thailand-shaped grounds.
Ancient Site (Jammu Kashmir 42)
Ancient Site (Jammu Kashmir 42), or Pandrethan (Puranadhisthana), Srinagar: Ashoka-era old capital of Kashmir with a 913–921 CE Shiva temple, ASI-protected, excavated 1913 by D.R. Sahni.
Ancient Site (Karnataka 83)
Ancient Site (Karnataka 83): centrally protected archaeological site at Udchan (Urchan), Afzalpur taluk, Kalaburagi district, Karnataka, under ASI Hampi Circle; listed among BC-period protected monuments.
Ancient Site (Madhya Pradesh 114)
Ancient Site (Madhya Pradesh 114), or Tila Monument at Pawaya, is the ASI-protected remains of ancient Padmavati, Naga capital in Gwalior district, with a three-tiered Gupta-period brick temple platform and Manibhadra Yaksha statue.
Ancient Site (Uttar Pradesh 186)
Ancient Site (Uttar Pradesh 186), also called the Tola Thankurpur site, is an ASI-protected archaeological site at Village Birdpur No.1, Siddharth Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, identifier N-UP-L354, near the Salya stupa and Piprahwa Buddhist remains.
Ancient Site (Uttar Pradesh 24)
Ancient Site (Uttar Pradesh 24), also listed as a high square-shaped mound at Rudarpur, Deoria district, is a centrally protected ASI archaeological site under the Sarnath Circle, protected by 1920 notifications UP 1465/1133-M and UP 1669/1133-M.
Ancient Site Called Garhwa Ka Kot Or Rajbhar Ka Lot
Garhwa-ka-kot or Rajbhar-ka-lot (गढ़वा कोट) is an ASI centrally protected ancient site at Garhwa village, Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, Sarnath circle; copper coins and Buddha images were reported at a Garhwa Kot site nearby.
Ancient Site Consisting of the Remains of An Ancient Fort and An Extensive Khera
Ancient site at Sankara (Shankargarh), Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI monument (N-UP-A77) combining a high flat-topped ancient fort earthwork with an extensive settlement mound (khera), about 55 hectares on an old Ganga course.
Ancient Site Measuring 7 Acres and 800 Links in Khasra No. 384
Ancient Site Measuring 7 Acres and 800 Links in Khasra No. 384, Amavey, Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh: a centrally protected ASI archaeological site named by its land-record plot and surveyed area.
Ancient Site Of Asurgarh Fort (Odisha 5)
The Ancient Site of Asurgarh Fort, also known as the Narla fort, is an early urban fortified settlement in Kalahandi, Odisha, India, excavated in 1973 and 2018-19.
Ancient Song City Site
古宋城址 (Gusong city site), also Songzi City site, Han-dynasty walled ruins in Songcheng Village, Zhao County, Hebei; 648 x 490 m walls, 341,826 sq m; seventh-batch national key cultural relics protection unit, 2013.
Ancient South Arabian script
The Ancient South Arabian script, or musnad, is a 29-letter consonantal alphabet used in ancient Yemen from the late 2nd millennium BC to the 6th century AD.
Ancient sports (ancient athletics)
Ancient athletics: organized competitive sport of the ancient Greek world, from the 776 BCE Olympic stadion (~190 m) through the four Panhellenic crown games, pentathlon, combat sports, athlete training and rewards, to its end in Late Antiquity.
Ancient sports (ancient combative sports)
Ancient combative sports: wrestling, boxing, and pankration, the 'heavy events' of the ancient Olympic Games from 708, 688, and 648 BCE, ruled by referees, ended with the games in 393 AD.
Ancient sports (ancient equestrianism)
Ancient equestrianism: horse and chariot races at the Ancient Olympic Games, including the tethrippon (680 BCE), synoris (408 BC), and keles (648 BC), run at Olympia's hippodrome.
Ancient Sri Lankan irrigation systems
Ancient Sri Lankan irrigation systems are networks of earthen-bund reservoirs, canals, and sluices built in Sri Lanka's dry zone, starting with the Basavakkulama tank around 300 BC.
Ancient technology
Ancient technology is the set of tools, techniques, and engineered systems developed before the industrial era, spanning 3.3-million-year-old stone tools to Roman aqueducts and concrete.
Ancient Theater of Argos
Ancient Theater of Argos (Αρχαίο Θέατρο Άργους): Hellenistic Greek theater cut into the Larisa hill at Argos, capacity about 20,000, host of Nemean Games contests, remodeled under Hadrian, excavated by the French School at Athens.
Ancient theater of Eretria
Ancient theater of Eretria (Αρχαίο θέατρο Ερέτριας), a Hellenistic theater in Eretria on Euboea, Greece, built in three phases from the late 4th century BC, seating about 6,000, with rare Charonian steps, later a Roman gladiatorial arena, now under restoration.