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1 day ago · The Old Kingdom of the regional Bronze Age is the name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egyptian civilization attained its first continuous peak of complexity and achievement—the first of three "Kingdom" periods which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley (the others being the Middle Kingdom and the ...
1 day ago · Bronze Age, third phase in the development of material culture among the ancient peoples of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, following the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods (Old Stone Age and New Stone Age, respectively). The term also denotes the first period in which metal was used.
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- The date at which the Bronze Age began varied with regions; in Greece and China, for instance, it began, before 3000 BCE, whereas in Britain, it di...
- The beginning of the Bronze Age is sometimes called the Chalcolithic (Copper-Stone) Age, referring to the initial use of pure copper. Scarce at fir...
- From about 1000 BCE, the ability to heat and forge another metal, iron, brought the Bronze Age to an end, and led to the beginning of the Iron Age.
- During the 2nd millennium, the use of true bronze greatly increased. The tin deposits at Cornwall, England, were much used and were responsible for...
22 hours ago · Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. '' native language '') was the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq .
22 hours ago · The Sumerian King List (abbreviated SKL) or Chronicle of the One Monarchy is an ancient literary composition written in Sumerian that was likely created and redacted to legitimize the claims to power of various city-states and kingdoms in southern Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennium BC.
5 days ago · Kerameikos Pottery and Cemetery. Kerameikos ruins. Although Kerameikos has been used as a cemetery as long ago as the 3rd millennium BC it was initially a settlement of potters and vase painters. The whole area was the main production center of the famous Attic ceramic vases.
4 days ago · “So this period of early Egypt is a little bit terra incognita from the perspective of silver,” Dr Sowarda said, noting that the bracelets represented “essentially the only large-scale silver that exists for this period of the third millennium BC”.
4 days ago · Chart showing the major types of female figures in Cycladic art and their chronological relation, in Pat Getz-Preziosi, Sculptors of the Cyclades: Individual and Tradition in the Third Millennium BC, The University of Michigan Press, 1987).
