These early cities, along with those in China, Africa, and the Americas, were the foundations of civilization. Arguably, their form and function were shaped by millennia of diseases and human responses to them, all the way back to the world’s earliest farming villages. ...
How Long Does a Civilization Last? Recently, I was talking with a colleague at work, and I mentioned that civilizations usually only last 500 years. The only problem was that I couldn't remember where I had heard that. In fact, I wasn't all that sure that I was right. I know that...
In 1994, Richard Sears decided to put the ancient Chinese characters online. Then, in 2002, he did it. That was the beginning of the Chinese Etymology (汉字字源) website. “My website did not get much attention for the next few years. Until one day in 2011, it suddenly got a lot ...
One factor that helped civilization to develop in both places was the climate of Mesopotamia, which 6,000 to 7,000 years ago, was wetter than that part of the Middle East is today. “The earliest cities of southern Mesopotamia developed on the margins of a great marsh that provided an abu...
The ancient city of Babylon was the site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, as well as the Tower of Babel, grand palaces and ziggurats. See more pictures of the seven wonders. Three Lions / Getty Images Seven has long been considered a magical number, and that made July 7, 2007 (7/07...
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. — C.P. Snow 22 Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing. — David Duval 52 Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is...
southern wetlands of Iraq, which are formed by the confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, a unique, water-based civilization lives. For 6,000 years, the Maʿdān have floated villages on man-made islands that are constructed from a single species of reed that grows around them...
We begin over 7,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia. This cradle of civilization was where the seeds of modern society were planted, as the concept of a city and a written language were developed. As businesspeople, the agrarians of this society needed to keep track of their crop and ...
The turmoil that brought an end to the Bronze Age also led to the collapse of the Hittite empire in Anatolia, the Mycenaean civilization in Greece and crippled ancient Egypt. For a long time, modern scholars blamed these myst...
t is hard to say how long people have been drinking wine. Wine is far older than recorded history. Some expertssay i is as old as civilization itself.I People in ancient times might have picked ripe grapes. Some juicy grapes at the bottom of the containerwere crushed(压碎) together As ...