ANCIENT HISTORY MAGAZINE #3

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Theme: Ancient Pergamon

Ancient objects and ancient sources - glass; papyrus; Cash in the first century AD; Hellenism's forgotten civilization - Pergamon; Pergamon - The Attalid jewel; libraries of Alexandria and Pergamon; great altar of Pergamon - Pergamene puzzle; Five ways to read four ancient words - The throne of Satan, Imperial gladiators, How the Persians reinvented their past - Kayanian history, A blind spot in the history of technology - Roman segmental arch bridges, A desert city long ago abandoned - Enigmatic Hatra, The philosophical system of the Hedonists - Lust for life, How do we know - The age of organic material, and more.