Epic of Gilgamesh Code of Hammurabi Enuma Elish James Henry Breasted, Description of the weather in ancient Egypt Herodotus, History, Book 2, Ch 124-127 Darwin's Origin of the Species:

Evolution and the Fossil Record Proverbs from Ki-en-gir (Sumerian) Sumerian Inscription Enki, A Sumerian High God Poem by a Sumerian Official The Legend of Sargon Enheduana's Hymns to the Sumerian Goddess Inanna Advice of an Akkadian Father to His Son The Akkadian Precepts Babylonian Proverbs from Ashurbanipal's Library A collection of Mesopotamian Laws A collection of contracts from Mesopotamia Babylonian Creation Myth Reports of Magicians and Astrologers at Ninevah and Babylon A collection of Babylonian Prayers Descent of Ishtar into the Nether World Letter of Pabi, Prince of Laschich, to Akehnaton Code of the Assyrians Conquests of Tiglathpileser I Campaigns of Sennacharib Ahikar the Wise Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Ninevah List of Egyptian Dynasties The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep Hymn to the Nile The Shipwrecked Sailor Victory of Ramses II over the Khita (Hittites) Princess Ahura, The Magic Book Great Hymn to Aten Egyptian High God in Age of Coffin Texts Egyptian Cosmogony and Theogony Debate Between Osiris and the High God A Spell for the Revival of Osiris The Dead Pharaoh Ascends to Heaven Man's Soul Identified with Osiris and Nature Papyrus of Ani Hymn to Ra Judgement of the Dead from the Book of the Dead Herodotus Description of Mummification Egyptian Love Poetry Coffin Text: The Tale of Horus and the Pig The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant The offering of Uha

Ancient Egypt The Ancient Near East The Spread of Homo sapiens sapiens Great Peloponnesian War

Egyptian Pyramid Relief carving from Akhenaten's reign Painting from tomb of Tutankhamun Representation of Osiris Cylinder Seal from the Akkadian Period Mid East I: Mud and thatch wall of Egyptian farmhouse in the Nile River Valley The Pyramids at Gizeh The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, a pharaoh during the era of the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor The lion's path along the grand approach to the Palace at Luxor, Egypt Pharaoh Ramses II's stone head at Luxor Pillars at the Temple of Luxor Reputed graffiti signature of Arthur Rimbaud, the French symbolist poet, on the walls of the Temple of Luxor

The Ancient World

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

ca. 8000 BCE Agriculture invented in the area of the Fertile Crescent ca. 4000 BCE First civilization (Sumer) emerges ca. 2680 BCE Great Pyramid of Khufu built at Gizah c. 1600 BCE Construction of the Temple at Knossos on Minoan Crete ca. 1790 BCE Code of Hammurabi codified (Babylonia) ca. 1400 BCE Phoenicians develop alphabet 1325 BCE King Tutankhamun dies and is buried ca. 1000 BCE Iron Age begins (Anatolia)

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