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7 hours ago · Fourth Millennium BCE From the 4th Millennium BCE to the 2nd Millennium BCE , hundreds of proto-cities in the Near East , Egypt , and the Indus Valley transition into city-states . [1] Records of those geopolitical changes are complicated by mythologization, historical revisionism , missing information, lack of corroborating primary sources ...
6 days ago · The Vedic period (2nd millennium–7th century bce) The people of the early Vedic period left few material remains, but they did leave a very important literary record called the Rigveda . Its 1,028 hymns are distributed throughout 10 books, of which the first and the last are the most recent.
Jun 18, 2024 · The dominant historical periodization for second and first millennium BCE Greece is one that considers the Late Bronze Age separate and apart from the periods that followed it and is strongly associated with a narrative that Orientalizes the Bronze Age (Nakassis, n.d.).
- Dimitri Nakassis
- Dimitri.Nakassis@colorado.edu
Jun 17, 2024 · Astronomy was the first natural science to reach a high level of sophistication and predictive ability, which it achieved already in the second half of the 1st millennium bce.
Jul 1, 2024 · Ancient Egypt was a civilization in northeastern Africa that dates from the 4th millennium BCE. Its many achievements, preserved in its art and monuments, hold a fascination that continues to grow as archaeological finds expose its secrets.
- Egyptian kings are commonly called pharaohs, following the usage of the Bible. The term pharaoh is derived from the Egyptian per ʿaa (“great estate...
- The two basic types of writing in ancient Egypt were hieroglyphs, which were used for monuments and display, and the cursive form known as hieratic...
- Snefru was the first king of ancient Egypt of the 4th dynasty (c. 2575–c. 2465 BCE). He probably built the step pyramid of Maydūm and then modified...
- Menes was the legendary first king of unified Egypt. According to tradition, he joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single centralized monarchy and e...
- The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
1 day ago · Emerging from Zoroaster's reforms of the ancient Iranian religion, Zoroastrianism may have originated in the Avestan period of the second millennium BCE, but enters recorded history in the mid sixth century BCE.
Jun 19, 2024 · The third millennium BCE was a pivotal period of profound cultural and genomic transformations in Europe associated with migrations from the Pontic-Caspian steppe, which shaped the ancestry patterns in the present-day European genome.
