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2 days ago · The Hittites ( / ˈhɪtaɪts /) were an Anatolian Indo-European people who formed one of the first major civilizations of Bronze Age West Asia. Possibly originating from beyond the Black Sea, [2] they settled in modern day Turkey in the early 2nd millennium BC.
- Biblical Hittites
The Hittites, also spelled Hethites, were a group of people...
- Hittite Cuneiform
Language portal; Asia portal; Hittite cuneiform is the...
- Hittite Religion
Hittite mythology and Hittite religion were the religious...
- List of Hittite Kings
Tudḫaliya IV of the New Kingdom, r. c. 1245–1215 BC. The...
- Biblical Hittites
4 days ago · Gilgamesh ( / ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ /, [7] / ɡɪlˈɡɑːmɛʃ /; [8] Akkadian: 𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦, romanized: Gilgameš; originally Sumerian: 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌, romanized: Bilgames) [9] [a] was a hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology and the protagonist of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC.
4 days ago · The origins of the Italic peoples lie in prehistory and are therefore not precisely known, but their Indo-European languages migrated from the east in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC. According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus , many Roman historians—including Cato and Sempronius —considered the Italian aborigines to have been ...
2 days ago · List of years - Wikipedia. Contents. hide. (Top) 1st millennium BC. 2nd millennium. 3rd millennium. See also. List of years. This page indexes the individual years pages. Each year is ordered. 1st millennium BC. 8th Century BC. 719. 718. 717. 716. 715. 713. 7th century BC. 700. 699. 698. 697. 696. 695. 694. 693. 692. 691. 690. 689. 688. 687. 686.
1 day ago · Commencing in the 2nd millennium BC, the Bantu began to migrate from Cameroon to the Congo Basin, laying the foundations for the cultures preceding the Kingdom of Kongo, and eastward to the Great Lakes region, forming the Urewe culture, which would lay the foundations for the Empire of Kitara, later producing the kingdoms of Buganda, Rwanda ...
1 day ago · The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, where known. [a] History of technology By technological eras Premodern Prehistoric Stone Age (lithic) Neolithic Revolution Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Ancient Modern Proto-industrialization First Industrial Revolution Standardization Second ...
4 days ago · Aural Architecture: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual in Byzantium by Bissera V. Pentcheva Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in the churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome and Armenia, and reflects on the role digital technology can ...
