Hildebrandsleid – a tragic story
Pictish battle (Aberlemno, Scotland, ca. 700 AD) (not really the Hildebrandsleid) Who wrote this story? The story of Hildebrand is one of the earliest stories written in German. Nobody knows [...]
Pictish battle (Aberlemno, Scotland, ca. 700 AD) (not really the Hildebrandsleid) Who wrote this story? The story of Hildebrand is one of the earliest stories written in German. Nobody knows [...]
Book of the Dead Writing in Egypt goes back to pretty much the earliest writing anywhere. Nobody really knows yet whether the Egyptians figured out how to write for themselves. [...]
Some of the earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphs (Abydos, ca. 3200 BC) Keeping records Soon after the Egyptian kings united Egypt into one country, about 3200 BC, they needed government officials [...]
Straw flip-flops from ancient Egypt Where did this story come from? The West Asian writer Strabo wrote down this Egyptian version of the Cinderella story. He wrote it in Greek, [...]
Greek theater at Epidauros - Reading a Greek play How did Greek plays get started? One great activity to understand ancient Greece better is to stage a scene from a [...]
Flute players like Xue Tao (T'ang Dynasty China) Xue Tao's childhood Like Bai Juyi, the poet Xue Tao was born in China during the T'ang Dynasty. She was a little [...]
Romance of the Three Kingdoms hero Guan Yu, in a small statue made during the Ming Dynasty (about 1495 AD) Luo Guanzhong wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms around [...]
This is a poem by Bai Juyi, written in China about 800 AD, during the late T'ang Dynasty. It's about the famous philosopher Lao Tzu. "Those who speak know nothing; Those who [...]
Early Chinese literature: an oracle bone with Chinese characters written on it When did people start to write in China? People in China started to write about 1500 BC, more than a [...]
A T'ang Dynasty official's house This is a poem by Bai Juyi, written in China about 800 AD, during the late T'ang Dynasty: There came an officer knocking by night [...]