When we talk about a phalanx in a military context, we automatically think of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian army, with its ...

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一说到太监，有人会轻蔑一笑，也有人还会骂一句“死太监”。孰不知，在古代想当个太监真心不容易，尤其是在明代那个“监才林列”的年代。明朝得太监都很牛，出现了王振、汪直、刘瑾、魏忠贤、冯保等权倾天下的臭名昭著的大太监，那么，他们又是怎么“炼成”的呢？

At the site of a former nightclub in Dover, England, archaeologists unearthed hundreds of artifacts. They believe the site was once the location of an ancient pub. A team of archaeologists from ...

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Hopefully the stars come out more frequently for the Canucks this season than they do for the planet Lagash. The one star still missing is Thatcher Demko but Kevin Lankinen did a decent Demko ...

Hudson: The early Sumerian cities like Uruk or Lagash frequently experienced the upheavals of warfare and disease. That meant there were large numbers of widows, orphans, and slaves in these cities.

University of Ghent and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Gelb, I. J. 1986. “Ebla and Lagash: Environmental Contrast.” Pp. 157–67 in Harvey Weiss (ed.), The Origins of Cities in ...

And how did the calendrical system become imbued into an arithmetic basis of weights and measures and rations? Hudson: The early Sumerian cities like Uruk or Lagash frequently experienced the ...