National Geographic History - 05.2019 - 06.2019
PRIESTS BEAR THE SACRED BARKS OF OPET IN A RELIEF ON THE 12TH-CENTURY B.C. MORTUARY TEMPLE OF RAMSES III, MEDINET HABU, THEBES. ...
TOP: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. BOTTOM: WERNER FORMAN/GTRES 2 4 1 3 5 6 7 a 19th-century illustration of a bark of Amun (above ...
The reliefs at Luxor and other sites give insight into the careful management of the event, which helped reinforce religious and ...
JOURNEY’S END At Luxor, the ceremonial barks would pass along the Processional Colonnade of Amenhotep III. At its end was the sh ...
FROM KARNAK TO LUXOR Mystery surrounds the rituals that were undertaken once the barks arrived in procession at the Temple of Lu ...
WATERCOLOR BY JEAN-CLAUDE GOLVIN. MUSÉE DÉPARTEMENTAL ARLES ANTIQUE. © ÉDITIONS ERRANCE 3 4 (^21) ...
DROWNING IN MONEY Roman coins envelop a bust of Crassus, who used his savvy to build an incredible fortune in Rome in the first ...
CR ASSUS ANDREA FREDIANI Born in the waning days of the Roman Republic, Crassus had unlimited desire for money and glory. Allyin ...
46 MAY/JUNE 2019 Julius Caesar, an ambitious military commander beginning a life in politics. Crassus had once been Caesar’s pat ...
Crassus’ father died in 87 B.C. after becom- ing embroiled in a political struggle that turned violent. Publius had allied with ...
48 MAY/JUNE 2019 Colline Gate in 82 B.C., which would end the civil war between Marius and Sulla. Crassus’ involve- ment in this ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 49 Crassus’s keen eye for business, and instinct for any opportunity to increase his wealth, took hi ...
50 MAY/JUNE 2019 tenth of his wealth to the cult of Hercules, and gave enough grain to feed every citizen for three months. He w ...
down the slave revolt led by Spartacus in the south of Italy. The revolt had sparked a serious political crisis, and his rebelli ...
52 MAY/JUNE 2019 As Pompey was gathering accolades in the east, the bond that Crassus had established with Ju- lius Caesar bore ...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 53 and Africa while Crassus became governor of the Syrian provinces. Crassus, who was about 60, stil ...
DEATH AT CARRHAE the army commanded by Crassus totaled 43,000 men, who arrived at Carrhae exhausted from crossing the des- ert. ...
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empress elisabeth of Austria MARÍA PILAR QUERALT DEL HIERRO Married at 16 to the emperor of Austria, Elisabeth—nicknamed Sisi—wa ...
ENIGMATIC ELISABETH Franz Winterhalter’s iconic 1865 portrait of Elisabeth (Sisi) depicts her at age 27, with a coquettish smile ...
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