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3 days ago · With a rough date range from the late 3rd millennium BC to the first millennium AD, this site alone has artefacts such as burial pottery (dating from 2100 to 1700 BC) and fragments of bronze and copper-base bangles.
- Metal Ages
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- Late Bronze Age Collapse
Invasions, destruction and possible population movements...
- Three-age System
Jōmon pottery, Japanese Stone Age Trundholm sun chariot,...
- Greek Dark Ages
The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1200–800 BC), were earlier regarded...
- Timeline of Historic Inventions
2nd century BC: Paper in Han dynasty China 206 BC: Compass...
- Human Timeline
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- Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (29 December 1788 – 21 May 1865)...
- Tin Sources and Trade in Ancient Times
Tin is an essential metal in the creation of tin-bronzes,...
- Metal Ages
1 day ago · Mesopotamia [a] is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq. [1] [2] In the broader sense, the historical region of Mesopotamia also includes parts of present-day Iran, Turkey, Syria and Kuwait.
2 days ago · In the Pre-Columbian Americas, the Maya civilization that flourished in Mexico and Central America during the 1st millennium AD developed a unique tradition of mathematics that, due to its geographic isolation, was entirely independent of existing European, Egyptian, and Asian mathematics.
2 days ago · This change first occurred slightly before the Akkadian period, at the time of the Uruk ruler Lugalzagesi (r. c. 2294–2270 BC). The vertical style remained for monumental purposes on stone stelas until the middle of the 2nd millennium. Written Sumerian was used as a scribal language until the first century AD.
1 day ago · The formation of genuine nomadic pastoralism itself happened in the early 1st millennium BC due to climatic changes which caused the environment in the Central Asian and Siberian steppes to become cooler and drier than before.
1 day ago · These were simply three of numerous Italic-speaking communities that existed in Latium, a plain on the Italian peninsula, by the 1st millennium BC.
2 days ago · Akkadian ( / əˈkeɪdiən /; Akkadian: 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑, romanized: Akkadû) [7] [8] is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia ( Akkad, Assyria, Isin, Larsa, Babylonia and perhaps Dilmun) from the third millennium BC until its gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among Assyrians and Babylonians from ...
