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3 days ago · Sumer (/ ˈ s uː m ər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
- Sumerian Language
Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: Emeg̃ir, lit. ''native...
- History of Sumer
The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in...
- Sumeria (Disambiguation)
Sumeria, or Sumer, is the region of city-states in ancient...
- Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /) was the first...
- Cradle of Civilization
Among the various cradles of civilization is Ancient Egypt....
- Caral-Supe
Reconstruction of one of the pyramids of Aspero. Caral–Supe...
- Talk
Iraq portal; This article is within the scope of WikiProject...
- Uruk Period
The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as...
- Green Sahara
The Sahara was not a desert during the African humid period....
- Indus–Mesopotamia Relations
Indus–Mesopotamia relations are thought to have developed...
- Sumerian Language
Year 221 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known in Rome as the Year of the Consulship of Asina and Rufus/Lepidus (or, less frequently, year 533 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 221 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in ...
3 days ago · Siege of Jericho (c. 1400 BC) Siege of Dapur (1269 BC) 10th century BC. Siege of Rabbah (10th century BC) (Bible Reference: II Samuel 11–12) Siege of Abel-beth-maachah (10th century BC) (Bible Reference: II Samuel 20:15–22) Siege of Gezer (10th century BC) Sack of Jerusalem (925 BC) by Egyptian pharaoh Shoshenq I; 9th century BC
4 days ago · The Origins of the English Gentry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN: 521862673X; 341pp.; Price: £50.00. Professor Coss has written a splendid analysis of the changing aristocracy of the two hundred years after 1150 that will be required reading for the next century or so.
5 days ago · The writer of a new book about life on Earth seen through the prism of the egg says the age-old paradox actually leads us back a billion years – to the bottom of the ocean
5 days ago · The intentions of the Roundheads in the English Civil War did not differ so radically from the aristocrat-led rebels of the Fronde. We can legitimately see the English Civil Wars as part of a general crisis of the 17th-century world. The French Revolution, in contrast, certainly was made by a bourgeoisie, but not a particularly capitalist one.
5 days ago · By the end of this century, an estimated 1,500 languages will have disappeared forever across the world, according to a new study. Unveiling the findings in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution on Dec 16, researchers warned that of the world's 7,000 recognized languages, around half are endangered.
