Pot Of Red Clay Containing A Hoard Of 1,925 Roman Silver Coins, Buried C. 230 AD.  Part Of The Falkirk

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Ohhhh yo quiero una casa en un árbol como esta!!!!!

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Que hermoso animal. Por favor colaboremos con su preservación!!

Tundra Gray Wolf by Cheryl Nestico

Otra maravilla romana, ésta ubicada en Efeso

Library of Celsus in Ephesus.

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Viva Polonia

RIO2016: Maria Andrejczyk finishes 4th in Athletics - Women’s Javelin Throw. #TeamPoland #POL

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Jungle Taxi, Yala, Sri Lanka

Alejandro, grande entre los grandes

HELLENISTIC WARFARE: 

WHEN Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE, he left behind an empire devoid of leadership. Without a named successor or heir, the old commanders simply divided the kingdom among themselves. For the next three decades, they fought a lengthy series of wars - the Wars of the Diadochi or Wars of the Successors - in a futile attempt to restore the tattered kingdom.

Although the Hellenistic Age saw Greek language, art and philosophy flourish throughout Asia, there were few advances in military tactics. Instead, it was a time of “kingdoms and their armies.” The successors inherited an army borne out of the reforms of Philip II of Macedon. He was an innovator; the first Greek to master siege warfare, and with his son Alexander, they made Macedon the foremost power in both Greece and Asia. Together, Alexander and his father would create an army unlike anything the ancient world had ever seen.

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Plotina, la esposa de Trajano, el mejor emperador de Roma. Y dicen que junto a un gran hombre, una gran mujer.

Colossal portrait sculpture of the Empress Plotina, wife of Trajan, thought to have been made after her deification in 129 CE.  Now in the Vatican Museum.  Photo credit: Carole Raddato.

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