Ancient history

Ancient history

The study of the written past from the beginning of recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, starting with Cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC.

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Boeotia

History; Ancient history

Region of central Greece, neighbouring Attica, that was a fertile area of many settlements, the most prominent of which was Thebes. Its central position made it the focus of many wars between ...

Cambrian period

History; Ancient history

The period of time during the history of Earth starting about 540 million years ago and ending about 505 millions years ago.

Pangaea

History; Ancient history

A very large continent that is thought to have existed around 250 million years ago and it later broke up into the continents we know today.

Elamite language

History; Ancient history

The elamite language is an extinct language that was spoken in the ancient Elamite Empire (Elam)which spanned present-day Iran from 2800-550 BCE. It is a language isolate (although it is possibly ...