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May 15, 2024 · From the middle of the second millennium BCE, cuneiform texts were collected in personal, temple, and palace libraries, composed on and copied from clay tablets, creating complex textually based traditions.
4 days ago · The prophet Zoroaster himself, though traditionally dated to the 6th century BCE, is thought by many modern historians to have been a reformer of the polytheistic Iranian religion who lived much earlier during the second half of the second millennium BCE.
6 days ago · The books that constitute the Hebrew Bible developed over roughly a millennium, with the oldest texts originating from about the eleventh or tenth centuries BCE. They are edited works, being collections of various sources intricately and carefully woven together.
6 days ago · The Vedic period, or the Vedic age ( c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE ), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas ( c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation ...
May 15, 2024 · The next large group of Sumerian literary manuscripts, the group that will concern us here, can be dated to a one-hundred-year period in the early second millennium, from approximately 1825–1725 BCE.
May 27, 2024 · Indus civilization, the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent. The nuclear dates of the civilization appear to be about 2500–1700 BCE, though the southern sites may have lasted later into the 2nd millennium BCE. Learn more about the Indus civilization in this article.
2 days ago · Although the name Hinduism is relatively new, having been coined by British writers in the first decades of the 19th century, it refers to a rich cumulative tradition of texts and practices, some of which date to the 2nd millennium bce or possibly earlier.
