Some articles on ancient, rome:
... The medical use of wormwood dates back to ancient Egypt, and is mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus, c ... leaves were used as remedies by the ancient Greeks ... of a wormwood-flavoured wine, absinthites oinos, in ancient Greece ...
... Korkai or Kayal (Chayal) was an ancient port dating to the 1st centuries of the common era and was contemporaneous to the existence of Kollam, another Pandyan port ... The ancient port had connections with Egypt, Rome and Greece ... On the west coast the ancient ports were Kollam and Kodungallur and Barugachha (Broach) in Gujarat ...
... Si Thep is an ancient town where many architectural structures still remain to indicate its past prosperity during the 11th – 18th Buddhist century ... A twin- city, there were over one hundred ancient sites all built with bricks and laterite, most of them have since crumbled ... Most of the ancient relics recovered are parts of architectural nature such as elaborate lintels, plastered designs and sema stone and human skeletons still are ...
... The earliest known writing about medicine was a hundred and ten page Egyptian papyrus ... It was supposedly written by the god, Thoth, about 16 centuries before the common era ...
... In some areas, the Scythians even penetrated into the mountains themselves ... In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus noted that the Scythians were present in the Central North Caucasus ...
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