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1 day ago · The oldest samples of writing in the Greek language, as identified by Michael Ventris, is the Linear B archive from Knossos, dated approximately to 1425–1375 BC. Archaic and Classical period. After the Bronze Age collapse, Crete was settled by new waves of Greeks from the mainland. A number of city states developed in the Archaic period.
4 days ago · Rouen ( UK: / ˈruːɒ̃, ˈruːɒn /, US: / ruːˈɒ̃, ruːˈɒn /; [3] [4] French: [ʁwɑ̃] ⓘ or [ʁu.ɑ̃]) [needs Norman IPA] is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the ...
1 day ago · Guinea is named after the Guinea region which lies along the Gulf of Guinea.It stretches north through the forested tropical regions and ends at the Sahel.The English term Guinea comes directly from the Portuguese word Guiné which emerged in the mid-15th century to refer to the lands inhabited by the Guineus, a generic term for the black African peoples south of the Senegal River, in contrast ...
3 days ago · 17.4879° N. 88.1834° W. UTC -06:00. Show Metric. View Live Ship Traffic In The Port of Belize City, Belize. Live ship traffic in the Port of Belize City, Belize is now centered in the port tracker below.
2 days ago · 1,229 / mi2. 106.3 km 2. 474 / km 2. 29.3095° N. 94.7962° W. UTC -05:00. Show Metric. View Live Ship Traffic In The Port of Galveston, Texas. Live ship traffic in the Port of Galveston, Texas is now centered in the port tracker below.
1 day ago · The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. [1]
4 days ago · The city forms the setting of The Persians (472 BC), an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus that is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre. Events mentioned in the Old Testament book of Esther are said to have occurred in Susa during the Achaemenid period.
