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Unusually ambitious Samian ware flask from Southern Gaul around 100 AD. Heracles is killing Laomedon. Pottery was produced in enormous quantities in ancient Rome, mostly for utilitarian purposes. It is found all over the former Roman Empire and beyond. Monte Testaccio is a huge waste mound in Rome made almost entirely of broken amphorae used ...
Story of Sinuhe. Categories: 19th century BC in the arts. 19th-century BC works. Literature by century. Ancient literature. 2nd-millennium BC literature.
c. 1600 BC: The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the Babylonian library of Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of Venus (which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna): Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa. c. 1600 BC: The date of the earliest discovered rubber balls.
The state of Yan (11th century BC – 222 BC) in the Zhou dynasty, when it was called Ji (蓟; 薊; Jì). The short-lived regional kingdom of Yan (911–914) established by Liu Shouguang during Five Dynasties period. The Liao dynasty (907–1125), when it was a secondary capital called Yanjing (燕京; Yānjīng; 'Capital of Yan'). (Liao Lang ...
Senusret I, King (1971–1926 BC) Amenemhat II, King (1914–1879/6 BC, 1878–1843 BC, or 1877/6–1843/2 BC) Senusret II, King (1897–1878 BC) Senusret III, King (1878–1839 BC) Amenemhat III, King (1860–1814 BC) Amenemhat IV, King (1822–1812 BC) Sobekneferu, Queen (1806–1802 BC) Thirteenth Dynasty of Second Intermediate Period Egypt ...
The most famous library of the ancient Near East was the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, founded in the seventh century BC by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (ruled 668–c. 627 BC). [14] [3] A large library also existed in Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II ( c. 605– c. 562 BC). [15]
Chamber pot. Japanese chamber pot from the Edo period. Chamber pot in Westerwald ceramics, early 18th century. Archeological find from Bruges. A chamber pot is a portable toilet, meant for nocturnal use in the bedroom. It was common in many cultures before the advent of indoor plumbing and flushing toilets .
