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Battle of Arcole
The Battle of Arcole (15-17 November 1796), or Arcola, was a three-day battle fought between Napoleon Bonaparte's French Army of Italy and an Austrian army under József Alvinczi. Part of Napoleon's Italian Campaign, the battle foiled Austria's...
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Archaeological Excavations at Tel Kabri
Tel Kabri is an archaeological site in northwestern Israel that is best known as the location of one of the largest palaces in Canaan in the Middle Bronze Age or "MB" (ca. 2,000–1,500 BCE). Although Tel Kabri reached the height...
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Tel Kabri
Tel Kabri is an archaeological site in the Western Galilee in northwestern Israel and the location of one of the largest palaces in Canaan in the Middle Bronze Age or "MB" (c. 2,000–1,500 BCE), the period in which Tel Kabri...
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Photograph of Rachmaninoff as a Student
An 1892 photograph of the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) when he was a student (far right) at the Moscow Conservatory. With him are Anton Arensky (1861-1906), seated in the middle, and Lev Conus and Nikita Morozov.
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Initial Phase of the Arcole Campaign
A map depicting the initial phase of the Arcole campaign, showing the advances of Alvinczi and Davidovich and the Battle of San Michele, the Second Battle of Bassano, and the Battle of Calliano.
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Table of Tel Kabri Stratigraphy
A table of Tel Kabri's stratigraphy for Middle Bronze Age I and II.
Source: Yasur-Landau et al. 2014, 356-364; Kempinski 2002, 4-5 Yasur-Landau et al. 2012, 3.
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Amorite
The Amorites were a Semitic people who seem to have emerged from western Mesopotamia (modern-day Syria) at some point prior to the 3rd millennium BCE. In Sumerian they were known as the Martu or the Tidnum (in the Ur III Period), in Akkadian...
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Torah
The Torah, also known as the Pentateuch (from the Greek for “five books”), is the first collection of texts in the Hebrew Bible. It deals with the origins of not only the Israelites but also the entire world. Though traditionally...
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Interview: The Mysterious Bronze Age Collapse with Eric Cline
The decline of the Late Bronze Age civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East has puzzled historians and archaeologists for centuries. While many have ascribed the collapse of several civilizations to the enigmatic Sea Peoples, Professor...
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The Grand Embassy of Peter the Great
The Grand Embassy was the name given to the long Western European tour that Tsar Peter I of Russia (aka Peter the Great, r. 1682-1725) undertook during 1697-1698. Peter was joined by hundreds of people, including noblemen, his friends, volunteers...