The Poetic Stela of Thutmose III
This granite stela (carved slab) was created during the reign of King/Pharaoh Thutmose III of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled from around 1479–1425…
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The Fourteen Rock Edicts of Ashoka
Asoka, who called himself Piyadasi, “Beloved of the Gods,” was the third king of the Mauryan Dynasty in the region corresponding to northern India, where…
Read morePope Urban II: Speech at the Council of Clermont
Pope Urban II (ruled 1088–1099) is credited with inaugurating the crusading movement in medieval Christianity with his speech calling and sanctioning the First Crusade at…
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