While human civilization developed in many places around the world, it first emerged thousands of years ago in the ancient Middle East. “We see the first cities, the first writing and first technologies originating in Mesopotamia,” saysKelly-Anne Diamond, a visiting assistant history professor at...
Digging Ancient Iraq: How Mesopotamia Has Weathered the WarPeter Brown
Mesopotamia (3000 BC - 0 AD) 8. Akkadian Empire (Sumer) The first great leader of the Akkadian Empire was Sargon, who became ruler around 2270 BC. The Akkadian Empire lasted from 2270 BC to 2083 BC. Its center was the city of Akkad. The empire collapsed due to the invasions by the ...
there have been those whostudy, develop and teach it. And this astronomy was practised long before the invention of telescopes, cameras orsupercomputers. inFirst Nations, astronomers are the keepers of knowledge that informs
This time around, people in the city centers weren’t living cheek by jowl with cattle or sheep. Cities were the centers of regional trade. Food was imported into the city and stored in large grain silos like the one at the Hittite capital of Hattusa, which could hold enough cereal gr...
Before man learned the secret of glassmaking, nature was the world's only glassmaker. Lightning striking sand melted it into long, thin tubes of glass, and volcanoes erupting melted rocks and sand into glass.Man's earliest glass was probably a glaze on ceramic pottery made ...
Vlad Jr. was sometimes referred to as Vlad Dracula, meaning "son of Dracul," but more often he was called "Vlad Tepes," meaning "Vlad the Impaler." This was in reference to Vlad's predilection for impaling his enemies on long wooden stakes. The Evolution of the Vampire in Modern Media...
Mechanical locks have been around since ancient Egypt, with the oldest known artifact found in the ruins of Nineveh, an ancient city in Assyria, Mesopotamia, which is just across the Tigris River from what is now Mosul, Iraq. It was a forerunner to our modern-day pin tumbler...more ...
What was the Golden Age of Ancient Greece? How did Sumer fall? How did the Greek Dark Ages end? How did Greek culture spread during the Hellenistic era? How big was Ancient Greece? How did the Neo-Babylonian Empire fall? How long has Greece been around?
The petition was signed by 49 Glaswegian accountants, and it argued that the accounting profession had long existed in Scotland as a distinct profession of great respectability and that the small number of practitioners had been rapidly increasing. The petition further highlighted the varied skills req...