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22 Questions

Was Hagia Sophia built over a pagan temple?

Were there any wars in ancient Greece where religion played a major part?

Was there a rule against non-Muslims wearing the colour green in the Ottoman empire?

Was the interior of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople ever covered with mosaic icons?

What was the northernmost region/city in the Roman Empire that spoke Greek as the native language?

Is there a relationship between the Pelasgians and Sea Peoples?

Did the ancient Greeks revere the Titans?

Did the Thracian Rhomphaia ever clash with a Roman Gladius?

Greek Revolution: Where did the Greeks look for descendants of the Byzantine dynasties?

Did Mithraism and other Roman cults surpass the original Greco-Roman religion in popularity before the rise of Christianity?

Who was the earliest historian of the Greco-Roman world to write something substantial about China?

Who revoked their signatures from the union agreement at the Council of Florence?

When was the Ottoman mosque within the Parthenon demolished?

How were ethnographic maps in the 19th century made?

Did the exile of the Platonic academy facilitate the foundation of the House of Wisdom?

What exactly were the religious beliefs of Gemistus Plethon?

Marcellus and his work “Aethiopica”

Did being a “Philhellene” in ancient times mean you were not a Greek?

When was the temple of Artemis at Ephesus destroyed?

Are there any palaces, temples or monuments built by the Seleucids surviving through to the present day?

Who built this monument in Hatra?

How late where plumed helmets and muscle cuirasses used by Roman/Byzantine soldiers?