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Ateas, king of the Pontic #Scythians who was defeated by Philip II of Macedonia

23/08/09 16:16

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#Cleopatra VII of #Egypt, the last ruling member of the #Ptolemaic dynasty

23/05/05 16:01

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#AlexanderTheGreat riding his horse #Bucephalus across the #HinduKush

23/04/11 01:28

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#Saka #Scythians from #CentralAsia, 4th century BC

23/04/01 07:01

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Stateira II of #Persia, daughter of Darius III, the last shahanshah of the #Achaemenid dynasty, and second wife of #alexanderthegreat. I made some updates to this old artwork to make it more accurate

23/03/16 21:40

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New version of #Roxana, the #Sogdian wife of #alexanderthegreat. The one I painted almost 5 years ago had inaccuracies that were impossible to fix, so I’ve made a new one, better researched and with the help of @eranudturan. This is still a highly speculative reconstruction.

23/03/14 23:36

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#Vandal nobleman and #Amazigh mercenary in North #Africa, somewhere south of the Atlas (5th century AD). The Vandals were a #Germanic tribe that conquered first Hispania and then Africa, from where they sacked Rome by sea.

23/02/14 07:06

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#Hephthalite #Hun cavalryman (5th century), based on a mural from the Cave of the Painters in #Kizil, Xinjiang. Reconstructed with the help of @eranudturan (his lamellar included)

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Khosrow II “Parviz”, shahanshah of the #Sasanian #Persian Empire from 590 to 628 AD, sitting on his throne, which had an automaton that simulated the movement of the stars, the Sun and the Moon. #Persia #Iran

22/10/04 04:19

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Theodoric I, king of the #Visigoths (390-451 AD), who made an alliance with the Roman general Flavius Aetius to stop the advance of Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, where Theodoric was killed. #visigodos

22/09/15 21:41

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Pushtigban-salar (royal bodyguard commander) of the #Sasanian Empire of #Persia. The armor is an interpretation of the plate armor worn by some god in a Sasanian column capital. Done with the help of @eranudturan

22/09/15 03:56

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Finno-Ugric warrior, 5th century. #urals #uralic

22/09/14 20:27

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Now I’m gonna start posting my art from Late Antiquity and the Migration Period, a series I’ve been working on during the last year. Here’s a #Scandinavian elite warrior from the #Vendel period, before the #Vikings

22/09/13 04:21

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#Celtic druid of Ynys Môn, the island of #Anglesey in Wales, which was a druidic centre in Antiquity, and is also a good spot to see #bioluminescent plankton. Anglesey is where the Romans killed the druids during Boudica’s rebellion.

22/09/12 16:12

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Olympias of Epirus, fourth wife of Philip II of #Macedon and mother of Alexander the Great. She was a member of a snake-worshipping cult of Dionysus. #alexanderthegreat #olympiasofepirus

22/09/12 06:56

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Ancient #Iberian chieftain (not to be confused with the Celtiberians, who were a type of Celts in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. The Iberians spoke a Pre-Indo-European language and lived along the Mediterranean coast of #Hispania)

22/09/11 20:49

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Porus of Pauravas, Indian raja against whom Alexander and the king of Taxila fought at the battle of the Hydaspes. #ancientindia #warelephant

22/09/11 16:18

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#Nubian tribal levy from the kingdom of #Kush, which were the southern neighbors of Ancient Egypt. They were often Egyp’s enemies but also mercenaries. The Kushites once conquered #Egypt and founded a dynasty of black pharaohs. The Kushite elite were also very egyptianized

22/09/10 15:53

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Indo-Scythian king (1st century), based on the golden treasure of Tillya Tepe (Afghanistan), with an Indian courtesan based on the Begram ivories, also from Afghanistan. #scythians #tillyatepe #begramivories

22/09/09 03:40

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#achaemenid #persian immortal in campaign equipment.

22/09/08 23:25

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#bactrian warrior from the #achaemenid period (6th - 4th centuries BC). #afghanistan

22/09/08 15:48

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Briton #celtic chieftain.

22/09/08 07:04

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#macedonian hypaspist officer from the army of #alexanderthegreat

22/09/06 20:28

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Warrior from the Dian kingdom, a possibly Tibeto-Burman ancient kingdom in what is now the Yunnan procince of south-western China. They were head-hunters and made some interesting bronzes. They were annexed to China by emperor Wu of Han.

22/09/06 03:23

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Emperor Wu of Han. The emperor who waged war against all of China’s enemies: the Xiongnu, the Austroasiatic kingdom of Nanyue, and is famous for the War of the Heavenly Horses against Dayuan. Also sent the envoy Zhang Qian to the Yuezhi and Greco-Bactria. #handynasty #china

22/09/05 15:38