National Geographic History - USA (2020-03)

THE NILE IN ITALY Pompeii’s Temple of Isis, dating to the late second century b.c., was damaged in an earthquake and rebuilt by ...

WESTWARD EXPANSION A temple honoring Isis was built in the first century b.c. in Sabratha in modern-day Libya. An important comm ...

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In addition to her traditional roles as wife, mother, healer, and protector of the dead, Isis was worshipped as the goddess of g ...

PRISMA/ALBUM MULTITASKER A painting from Pompeii shows Isis with the attributes of various divinities. In her left hand she hold ...

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PIRATES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD MEDITERRANEAN MARAUDERS TRADE AND WAR Merchant ships, such as that on the left of this sixth-centur ...

Trade routes along the shores of the Mediterranean brought wealth and prosperity to civilizations there—and made them attractive ...

46 MARCH/APRIL 2020 The origins of the modern term “piracy” can be traced back to the ancient Greek word peiráo- mai, meaning at ...

SAFE HAVEN In antiquity, Rhodes grew wealthy from the trade that traveled through its harbor. The Rhodian navy protected the isl ...

Land and Sea Piracy in the ancient world can be linked, in part, to geography. The ruggedness of the Mediterranean region often ...

THE WRECK OF THE KYRENIA IN 1965 THE WRECKAGE of an ancient, small, single-masted merchant boat was discovered on the bottom of ...

50 MARCH/APRIL 2020 the money that had been stolen by one of his crew. Despite the Tjeker not being directly in- volved in the c ...

PUNISHMENT FOR PLUNDERERS Standing tall, a vengeful Ramses III (left) smites Sea People captives in a 12th- century b.c. relief ...

52 MARCH/APRIL 2020 spectacular array of vessels Deme- trius deployed when blockading Rhodes included a number of pi- rates, the ...

this scourge of trade. In his Life of Pompey, the historian Plutarch paints a vivid picture of the scale of the challenge facing ...

54 MARCH/APRIL 2020 issued pardons and given property and land in regions located far from the sea. These rewards enabled the re ...

RIPE FOR THE TAKING the merchant ship known as the navis oneraria was Rome’s cargo vessel of choice in late antiquity, designed ...

artists embraced piracy in their works, as in this third- century a.d. Roman mosaic. Uncovered in the House of Dionysus and Ulys ...