The winter months bring a season of festivities, marked by lights, gatherings, and cherished traditions. Among the man ...

The Seleucid army camped outside the city ... in a chariot driven by Nike and drawn by lions toward a votive sacrifice (right); above are heavenly symbols including a solar deity, Plaque from Bactria ...

An Egyptian god Hellenized: what better symbol for unification ... Its main threat? The neighboring Seleucid dynasty, masters of Syria, whose territory stretched from Anatolia to Mesopotamia. In the ...

The International Society of Automation (ISA) — the leading professional society for automation — has published a new update of its most widely used standard, the internationally recognized ANSI/ISA-5 ...

To this end, a designation system is presented that includes symbols and an identification code. The differing established procedural needs of various organizations are recognized, where not ...

The colours, traditions and rituals of the holiday all have special significance. Here are six important symbols of Día de los Muertos. It is traditionally split into three tiers. The top tier ...

Writing in the late second century a.d., Polyaenus, in Book 8 of his Strategica, presents 33 stratagems supposedly employed by Julius Caesar in his various campaigns. The stratagem of interest to us ...

In the heart of the Middle East, where golden sands dance in the embrace of the desert winds, a remarkable metamorphosis is unfolding in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This transformation, akin to the ...

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The Olympic flag – one of the most recognisable symbols of the Olympic Games – was created for the Olympic Jubilee Congress in 1914 in Paris in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Olympic ...