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3 days ago · First millennium AD. From Late Antiquity, we have for the first time languages with earliest records in manuscript tradition (as opposed to epigraphy). Thus, Classical Armenian is first attested in the Armenian Bible translation. The Vimose inscriptions (2nd and 3rd centuries) in the Elder Futhark runic alphabet appear to record Proto-Norse names.
4 days ago · The kings are listed in reverse order in the AKL, starting from Aminu and ending with Apiashal (who is also included in the list of kings who lived in tents). Hale, son of Apiashal. Samani, son of Hale. Hayani, son of Samani. Ilu-Mer, son of Hayani. Yakmesi, son of Ilu-Mer. Yakmeni, son of Yakmesi. Yazkur-el, son of Yakmeni.
3 days ago · In the Shulba Sutras of Indian mathematics, dating to an oral tradition from the first or second millennium BC, approximations are given which have been variously interpreted as approximately 3.08831, 3.08833, 3.004, 3, or 3.125. Polygon approximation era π can be estimated by computing the perimeters of circumscribed and inscribed polygons.
3 days ago · Jesus Washing Peter's Feet, painting by Ford Madox Brown (1852–1856), Tate Britain, London. Christianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus ( c. 27 –29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles ( c. 100) and is thus also known as the Apostolic Age. [citation ...
4 days ago · The Roman Empire [a] was the post- Republican state of ancient Rome. It is generally understood to mean the period and territory ruled by the Romans following Octavian 's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC. It included territories in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia and was ruled by emperors.
2 days ago · Phoenicia ( / fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə / ), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5] [6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their ...
4 days ago · The Phaistos Disc or Phaistos Disk is a disk of fired clay from the island of Crete, Greece, possibly from the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age ( second millennium BC ), bearing a text in an unknown script and language. Its purpose and its original place of manufacture remain disputed.
