Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets The one known as the Angevin Empire or Plantagenet Empire came to extend from Scotland to the Pyrenees. To the territories contributed by Henry of Anjou (Henry II of England) as an inheritance from his mother the Empress Matilda and his father Godfrey of An
In the Museum of Oriental Arts in Istanbul, a copy of one of the oldest epic poems of humanity, belonging to Sumerian literature, is preserved. It is about “Enmerkar and the lord of Aratta ”. The poem, which consists of about 600 lines, narrates a confrontation between nations, which makes it, possi
A cow and a horse start off from the same point P in different directions. Both travel circular paths that converge at point P. If the cow advances along a path A of 48 km. in circumference at a speed of 8 km. a day, and the horse a path B of 32 km. of circumference to 12 km. per day, how many days
The kingdom of Ahhiyawa is revealed in the book “Ahhiyawa. The Mycenaean Aegean through the Hittite Texts, by Konstantinos Kopanias, archaeologist, associate professor at the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Athens. These texts, written in the Hittite language and in cuneifo