The Hittites | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Mu... - 0 views
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"The Hittites, who spoke an Indo-European language (a family of languages that includes English), dominated much of Anatolia and neighboring regions between about 1650 and 1200 B.C. It has been suggested that groups speaking languages related to Hittite first entered Anatolia at the end of the third millennium B.C., but the Hittites first rose to prominence around 1750 B.C., when King Pithana and his son Anitta captured the important city of Kanesh as well as a number of other city-states, including that of Hattusha (modern Bogazköy)."
Information about the Hittites - Home Page - 0 views
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"Learn the history of the Hittites. Read about them in their own words. Reference a powerful map to reveal the Hittite world. Uncover the most recent discoveries. Discuss with others. You can do all of this at Hittites.info, in a single, powerful, integrated environment. Learn history in a way never before possible - at Hittites.info."
Seeds of Trade - Printable Version - 0 views
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"Oats appear to have been crop weeds for a long time before being truly cultivated. There is evidence of wild Avena species contaminating barley and wheat crops in archaeological remains in the Fertile Crescent. When the established crops such as wheat and barley were disseminated into Europe and Asia from the Fertile Crescent, the weedy oats travelled with them. Oat was developed into a crop when it out-competed wheat and barley in the cloudy and wet environment of northern Europe. Domestication of the common oat was first confirmed in archaeological remains found in Central Europe dated 1000 BC."
Sumerian cuneiform script and Sumerian language - 0 views
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"Sumerian was spoken in Sumer in southern Mesopotamia (part of modern Iraq) from perhaps the 4th millennium BC until about 2,000 BC, when it was replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language, though continued to be used in writing for religious, artistic and scholarly purposes until about the 1st century AD. Sumerian is not related to any other known language so is classified as a language isolate."
Cuneiform - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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"Cuneiform script[nb 1] is one of the earliest known systems of writing,[1] distinguished by its "wedge-shaped" marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply means "wedge shaped", from the Latin cuneus "wedge" and forma "shape," and came into English usage "probably from Old French cunéiforme."[2]"
The Bronze Age Timeline - 0 views
Ancient Greece for Kids: Homer's Odyssey - 0 views
La Villa romaine de Pully - 0 views
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"Une monographie scientifique de 400 pages, illustrée de près de 420 figures, vient de paraître sous le titre «La villa romaine du Prieuré à Pully et ses peintures murales». Cette publication retrace plus de 40 années de recherches sur le site archéologique exceptionnel de la villa romaine de Pully, construite entre le 1er et le 2e siècle de notre ère."
Author Says a Whole Culture-Not a Single 'Homer'-Wrote 'Iliad,' 'Odyssey' - 0 views
Under Mexico City - Archaeology Magazine - 0 views
Exploring Civilization Beyond the Walls | Voices - 0 views
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"Before we'd even become Homo sapiens sapiens, humans lived everywhere from South Africa up to Britain and over to China. There were mountain people, coastal people, people who hunted woolly mammoths, and people who'd never seen a woolly mammoth in their lives. Just like we see with distinct groups of other animals, these differences of experience, adaptation, and expectation would have made for real cultural and even physical differences between populations. A few hundred thousand years later, as groups began to settle down and build cities they often enclosed them within massive walls. The ways different cultures interact across those walls could be seen as the central story of civilization. Top archaeologists from around the world have been exploring that story for the past week in public presentations and conversations at the 2015 Dialogue of Civilizations in Beijing."
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