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archaeo-, archeo-, archae-, arche-, archa-, archi-, -arch
(Greek: original [first in time], beginning, first cause, origin, ancient, primitive, from the beginning; most basic)
palaeo-, palae-, paleo-, pale-
(Greek: original, ancient, primitive, old)
augur-
(Latin: diviner, soothsayer; a member of the college of priests in Rome, who foretold the future; in ancient Rome, a priest who foretold events by interpreting omens)
bacchus [BAK uhs]
(Greek > Latin: an ancient Greek and Roman god of wine and revelry; earlier called Dionysus by the Greeks)
Calendar, Aprilis
(April, another ancient Roman month)
Chemical Element: lutetium
(Modern Latin: chemical element; from Gaulish-Latin, Lutetia, a fortified town of a Gaulish tribe of the Parisii, the ancient name of Paris; rare earth)
consult-; consul-
(Latin: to deliberate together, to consider; magistrate in ancient Rome who consulted the Roman Senate)
Earth, Words from the Myths
(Gaia, Earth goddess of the ancient Greeks, she was called Gaea, Terra Mater, "Earth Mother" by the Romans; third planet from the sun)
Hair and Beard Styles from the 14th century to the 7th century B.C.
(Samples of ancient beard and male and female hair styles)
horme-
(Greek: from ancient Greek hormáein [hormein], "to set in motion, impel, urge on")
Libraries: Library Origins and Developments through the Centuries
(the way they were in ancient times and are in the present and potentials for the future)
Professional-Egyptian scribe story, part 2 of 2
(scribe tools and symbols of one of the most important occupations of ancient Egyptian times)
Steganography
(a secretly hidden coding that dates back to ancient Greece and is used even in this modern era)
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Babylonian and (Jewish), Ancient months
duzu (tammuz)
abu (ab)
ululu (elul)
tashritu (tishri)
arasamnu (marheshvan)
kislimu (kislev)
tebetu (tebeth)
shabatu (shebat)
addaru (adar)
nisanu (nisan)
aiaru (iyyar)
simanu (sivan)
—From Chronology of the Ancient World by E.J. Bickerman;
Cornell University Press; Ithaca, New York; 1968.
This entry is located in the following unit: Calendar Names of Days and Months in Different Languages (page 1)
Alchemy, an ancient science +
(how alchemists changed matter into useful applications)
Medicine, Leeching for Health +
(leeches are bleeding their way back into the good graces of modern medical treatment as healers just as they did in ancient societies)
Science and Technology Words from the Ancient Past to the Present, Part 1
(terms appearing in some "scientific" areas from about 2000 B.C. to 1799 A.D.)
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Alchemy, an ancient science
Terms and article about the science of alchemy.
This entry is located in the following unit: Index of Scientific and Technological Topics (page 1)