There are different types of sundials. Some sundials use a shadow or the edge of a shadow while others use a line or spot of light to indicate the time.The shadow-casting object, known as a gnomon, ma ...
History of construction surveying The nearly perfect squareness and north-south orientation of the Great Pyramid of Giza, built c. 2700 BC, affirm the Egyptians' command of surveying.A recent reassess ...
A series of forts and stations were spread out along the major road systems connecting the regions of the Roman world. These relay points (stationes) provided horses to dispatch riders, usually soldie ...
Posidonius, nicknamed "the Athlete", was born to a Greek family in Apamea, a Hellenistic city on the river Orontes in northern Syria.Posidonius completed his higher education in Athens, where he was a ...
He was born in Mallus in Cilicia, and was brought up at Tarsus, and then moved to Pergamon, and there lived under the patronage of Eumenes II, and Attalus II. He was the founder of the Pergamon school ...
Red Sea is a direct translation of the Greek Erythra Thalassa (Ερυθρ? Θ?λασσα) and Latin Mare Rubrum (alternatively Sinus Arabicus, literally "Arabian Gulf"), Arabic Al-Ba?r Al-A?mar ( ...
The Turkish name ?anakkale Bo?az? is derived from the major city adjoining the strait, ?anakkale (which takes its name from its famous castles; kale means "castle").The name Dardanelles derives fr ...
Libya extends over 1,759,540 square kilometres (679,362 sq mi), making it the 17th largest nation in the world by size. Libya is somewhat smaller than Indonesia in land area, and roughly the size of t ...
Further information: Ancient Libya and LibuThe name Libya (Listeni/?l?bi?/ or /?l?bj?/; Arabic: ?????? Līb(i)yā ( listen); Libyan Arabic: ) was introduced in 1934 for Italian Libya, aft ...
In certain felony murder statutes, "res gestae" is a term defining the overall start-to-end sequence of the underlying felony. Generally, a felony's res gestae is considered terminated when the suspec ...
For more details on the early history of Axum, see Kingdom of Aksum.The Kingdom of Aksum and other polities in 565.Axum was the center of the marine trading power known as the Aksumite Kingdom, which ...
Arabia Felix (lit. Happy Arabia; also Greek: Eudaimon Arabia) was the Latin name previously used by geographers to describe the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, a country with an extensi ...
Caesar's first-hand discoveries were limited to east Kent and the Thames Valley, but he was able to provide a description of the island's geography and meteorology. Though his measurements are not who ...
Britain had long been known to the classical world as a source of tin. One hypothesis is that the name "Britain" is derived from a Phoenician word, "Baratanac", that meant "Land of Tin"; alternatively ...
Football is by far the most popular sport in Sierra Leone. Children, youth and adult are frequently seen playing street football across Sierra Leone. There are organized youth and adult football tourn ...
