ANCIENT 101
This method involves carefully digging up ancient sites layer by layer to uncover artifacts and understand past human activity
What is excavation?
The modern city that housed the ancient land of Troy.
Where is Turkey?
The Achaemenid king who began the construction of Persepolis in the 6th century BCE.
Who is Darius I?
This gladiator led a slave revolt against the Roman army and would later influence Rome's evolution into an Empire.
Who was Spartacus?
These people of the ancient Mediterranean were famous sailors and traders, and they founded Carthage.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Archaeologists often date artifacts using this method, which measures the decay of C-14 in organic materials.
What is Radiocarbon dating?
The archaeologist know for discovering Troy.
Who is Heinrich Schliemann?
The massive audience hall in Persepolis, capable of holding thousands.
What is the Apadana?
This legendary twin brothers are said to have founded Rome in 753 BCE.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
This famous king of Macedonia conquered Greece and created one of the largest empires in the ancient world by 323 BCE.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This practice involves stabilising and protecting artifacts, structures, and sites from decay, weathering, or human damage, allowing archaeologists and the public to study and enjoy them over time.
What is conservation?
The number of layers identified through excavations of Troy.
What is 9 layers?
The Gate of All Nations was constructed by this Achaemenid king.
Who is Xerxes I?
Used in naval battles during the Punic Wars, this device allowed Roman ships to grapple enemy vessels and board them
What is the corvus?
This large stone monument in England was built in prehistoric times, possibly as a temple or astronomical calendar.
What is Stonehenge?
In archaeology, this term refers to the study and interpretation of layered deposits at a site, allowing researchers to reconstruct the sequence of human activity over time
What is stratigraphy?
These Mycenaean clay tablets record shipments of grain, oil, and other goods, suggesting trade and diplomatic ties with the city known in Hittite texts as Wilusa.
What is Linear B?
A neighbouring city of Persepolis, the old capital of Elam, later conquered by the Achaemenids.
What is Susa?
This short stabbing sword was the standard weapon of Roman legionaries, ideal for close combat in tight formations
What is the gladius?
Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca are deities belonging to this ancient civilization.
What are the Aztecs?
This term describes the use or misinterpretation of archaeological evidence to promote national pride, legitimise territorial claims, or glorify a nation’s past, often at the expense of objective scholarship.
What is patriotic archaeology?
In later epic and tragic tradition, this queen of Troy, mother of Hector and Paris, is depicted mourning the fall of her city and witnessing the fates of her children, though Homer’s Iliad mostly portrays her in the background
Who is Hecuba?
This historian states: "Thaïs, an Athenian... said, … it would be a … greater pleasure to … set fire to the house of the Xerxes who burned Athens... As soon as she had thus spoken, tumultuous applause arose, and the companions of the king [Alexander] eagerly urged him on, so that he yielded to their desires"
Who is Plutarch?
Changes that allowed the recruitment of landless citizens, standardised legionary training, and reorganised Roman legions into cohorts, reshaping the army and Roman society.
What are the Marian Reforms?
Mother of the emperor Nero, she was a powerful Roman noblewoman who married her uncle, the emperor Claudius, and was rumored to have poisoned him to secure Nero’s succession.
Who is Agrippina the Younger?