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The Ancient Aegean.(description of Turkey's Aegean coast)(Brief Article)
Travel Agent; 5/13/2002; 476 words
; ... recreational possibilities, the Aegean coast is also the heartland of classical civilizations, Many of the most famous ... beaches of Bodrum, Turkey's Aegean coast offers rich possibilities ... strait that connects the Aegean and Marmara seas. Famous ...
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Aegean Eruption
Jerusalem Post; 5/12/1995; Abraham Rabinovich; 787 words
; ... palaces of Mycenae in the Aegean were covered with layers ... destruction, the Hittite civilization in the area of today ... peoples dislodged from the Aegean by the cataclysmic events ... transplanted their high civilization into Canaan almost intact ...
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New evidence for an early date for the Aegean Late Bronze Age and Thera eruption.
Antiquity; 9/1/2002; Manning, Sturt W. Ramsey, Christopher Bronk Doumas, Christos Marketou, Toula Cadogan, Gerald Pearson, Charlotte L.; 787 words
; ... both the beginning of the Aegean Late Bronze Age and the ... radiocarbon) data from the Aegean. These offer important clarification ... correct interpretation of Aegean-Egyptian linkages in the ... conventional chronology of the Aegean Late Bronze Age places the ... approximately historically dated ...
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ANCIENT APPEAL AEGEAN CRUISE SAILS TO A TIME OF WONDERS.(Sunday Magazine/Travel)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 1/21/2001; Fowler, Carol; 787 words
; Byline: Carol Fowler Special to the News IN THE AEGEAN SEA -- Late afternoon on the Aegean Spirit's sun-washed deck, someone ... usual cruise. We were sailing on the Aegean Sea, where the shore excursions focused ... from the ancient world: the Minoan civilization on Crete, the biblical period ...
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An Athenian legend sails the Aegean once more. (trireme)
U.S. News & World Report; 8/17/1987; Rosellini, Lynn; 787 words
; An Athenian legend sails the Aegean once more What kind of ship is it?' asked anawe-struck British ... all, the last time such an oared warship was seen on the Aegean Sea, Romans were feeding Christians to the lions. Nor was ... Greece. The trireme protected, defendedand preserved this civilization intact,' ...
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Nailing down an ancient eruption. (eruption on Aegean island of Thera)
Science News; 4/16/1988; 208 words
; ... the fable sprang from an ancient volcanic eruption on the Aegean island of Thera. One of the strongest in recorded history ... ocean. The eruption heralded a new phase in the bronze-age civilization of the Aegean, and archaeologists have traditionally dated the blast between ...
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Mediterranean, Aegean, Classical and Hellenistic archaeology.(Bibliography)
Antiquity; 3/1/2008; Hummler, Madeleine; 670 words
; ... Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond (British School at Athens Studies 15). xxviii ... C.P. DOONAN (ed.). Metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 7). xii+264 pages, 68 illustrations, 17 tables ... Uppsala Studies in Ancient ...
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Picture perfect On the volcanic rim of Santorini, the sky, the Aegean and the Greek culture dazzle the eye
The Boston Globe; 7/23/1995; Stan Grossfeld, Globe Staff; 787 words
; ... wave that wiped out the Minoan civilization on Crete, 70 miles away. Imagine ... tourists gleefully dive into the Aegean Sea and swim to the Hot Springs ... disfigured. But the pale blue Aegean is so crystal clear, and the ... views from 900 feet up over the Aegean that make you feel like you' ...
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Cradle of vintners rocks with quality; Greeks were first to mark grape as part of civilization.(FOOD)(WINE)
The Washington Times; 4/3/2002; 787 words
; ... ancient Greeks were the first people to value wine as a mark of civilization rather than just a tool for intoxication. Wine moistens and ... no expense, he planted terraced vineyards overlooking the Aegean and hired Emile Peynaud from Bordeaux as his consulting winemaker ...
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The West's first stand: Marathon: at the dawn of what was to become Western Civilization, the Athenians won an amazing victory over the Persians at Marathon.
The New American; 4/2/2007; Scaliger, Charles; 787 words
; ... on, his eyes riveted to the road. The news he bore was for the ears of Athenians ... of the Greek world that lay across the Aegean Sea from Athens on the peninsula of Asia ... represented the last major holdouts of Greek civilization on the Aegean. Coming Collision The collision between ...
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