Aramaic language: Comparing different ancient alphabets When did Aramaic get going? As people began to settle down in towns in West Asia, about 4000 BC, they began to speak differently from their [...]
A reconstruction of what Troy VI might have looked like. For thousands of years, people read Homer's Iliad and learned the story of the Trojan War. But nobody knew if it had really happened, [...]
West Asian economy: Bronze Age tin ingots from a shipwreck near Haifa Trading for tin When people first began to use bronze, about 3000 BC, they had to trade a lot more [...]
Building D, Gobekli Tepe. Southern Turkey, about 9000 BC West Asian art goes back to the earliest presence of people in West Asia, in the form of little stone or clay fertility figurines. Around 9000 [...]
A gold cup from northern Italy (ca. 1800 BC) is like Bronze Age gold cups from Germany and England and may show that there was trading going on all across Bronze [...]
Joseph dreams and gets put in the well, then talks to Pharaoh (Egypt, 500s AD, cloth) Who was Isaac again? According to the Bible, Isaac was the son of Abraham and Sarah. Isaac [...]
Thanks to My Maps Plus for help with the coding. How to use this map: Click on any blue marker to see what happened there. When the info box pops up, click on "find [...]
Jomon carving of a killer whale, ca. 3000 BC - Stone Age Japan The first people in Japan People probably first reached Japan from two directions around the same time. [...]
Harappan Seal Who were the Harappans? Around 4500 BC, some new people from West Asia moved into the Indus Valley and mixed with the Mehrgahr people who were already there. They brought some [...]
Harappan architecture: Bath building at Mohenjo-Daro, 2500 BC Early houses in India The earliest big buildings in India were built by the Harappan people in the Indus River valley, about 2500 BC. The Harappan [...]
