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1 day ago · Late 4th millennium BC: Writing – in Sumer and Egypt. 3300 BC: The first documented swords. They have been found in Arslantepe, Turkey, are made from arsenical bronze, and are about 60 cm (24 in) long. Some of them are inlaid with silver. 3300 BC: City in Uruk, Sumer, Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).
1 day ago · The majority of Babylonian mathematical work comes from two widely separated periods: The first few hundred years of the second millennium BC (Old Babylonian period), and the last few centuries of the first millennium BC (Seleucid period). It is named Babylonian mathematics due to the central role of Babylon as a place of study.
1 day ago · As well during this period, the evidence of further inequality growth is mostly archaeological (although some useful written documentation survives) and involves early states like the Akkadian Kingdom from the twenty-fourth to the twenty-second century BCE, Babylon from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century BCE, or Egypt in various ...
4 days ago · Uppsala University - Semitic languages (May 20, 2024) Semitic languages, languages that form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. Members of the Semitic group are spread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia and have played preeminent roles in the linguistic and cultural landscape of the Middle East for more than 4,000 years.
5 days ago · Though there is no definite evidence as to the intended purpose of Stonehenge, it was presumably a religious site and an expression of the power and wealth of the chieftains, aristocrats, and priests who had it built—many of whom were buried in the numerous barrows close by.
2 days ago · Damascus was an active commercial centre in the 2nd millennium bce and developed through different stages of urbanization thereafter, reaching its zenith at the beginning of the 7th century ce when it became the capital of the Umayyad empire. The heart of Damascus’s Old City, which contains most of the city’s historical monuments, is ...
1 day ago · The Vedas have been orally transmitted since the 2nd millennium BCE with the help of elaborate mnemonic techniques. [23] [24] [25] The mantras, the oldest part of the Vedas, are recited in the modern age for their phonology rather than the semantics , and are considered to be "primordial rhythms of creation", preceding the forms to which they ...
