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Topic: 2600 BCE

	Ancient 3500BCE to 587 BCE, Ted Thornton, NMH, Northfield Mount Hermon
		The earliest texts, in cuneiform, date to the eighteenth century B.C.E. This epic constitutes perhaps the first literary example of a human being grappling with the problem of death.
		Ramses II is traditionally regarded as the pharaoh of the biblical account of Moses and the Hebrews in Egypt, although this is disputed.
		During the eleventh century B.C.E., the camel was introduced into Palestine and Syria by the invading Midianites, as mentioned in Judges 6:5.
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/period_3500bce_to_587_bce.php (2627 words)

	Vegetarians in Paradise/Garlic History/Garlic Nutrition/Garlic Folklore/Garlic as Medicine/Garlic Recipes
		Egypt's youngest pharaoh, Tutankhamen (1350 BCE), was sent on his journey into the afterlife accompanied with garlic, considered the protector of the soul and guardian of his riches in the afterlife.
		The first written mention of garlic may have appeared about 2600 BCE when the Sumerians described the staples of their diet that included the herb along with grains, legumes, some root vegetables, leafy greens like lettuce and mustard, cucumbers and a variety of fish.
		A 300 BCE Greek custom used by travelers for protection from evil spirits was to place garlic at a crossroads to confuse the demons and cause them to lose their way.
	www.vegparadise.com /highestperch.html (8447 words)

	Ancient Calendars
		Based on this knowledge, they devised a 365 day calendar that seems to have begun around 3100 BCE (Before the Common Era), which thus seems to be one of the earliest years recorded in history.
		Before 2000 BCE, the Babylonians (in today's Iraq) used a year of 12 alternating 29 day and 30 day lunar months, giving a 354 day year.
		This culture and its related predecessors spread across Central America between 2600 BCE and 1500 CE, reaching their apex between 250 and 900 CE.
	physics.nist.gov /GenInt/Time/ancient.html (400 words)

	Gold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egyptian hieroglyphs from as early as 2600 BCE describe gold, which king Tushratta of the Mitanni claimed was as "common as dust" in Egypt.
		Exploitation is said to date from the time of Midas, and this gold was important in the establishment of what is probably the world's earliest coinage in Lydia between 643 and 630 BCE.
		The European exploration of the Americas was fueled in no small part by reports of the gold ornaments displayed in great profusion by Native American peoples, especially in Central America, Peru, and Colombia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gold (3534 words)

	Pakistan
		Most of the region was conquered in 540 BCE by the Persian Achaemenid Dynasty which ruled the area for the next two centuries.
		In 326 BCE, Alexander the Great defeated the king Porus (Paurava) at the Battle of the Hydaspes River near Jhelum and annexed the area to his Hellenistic empire.
		After the Mauryan Empire collapsed in 185 BCE, Demetrius of Bactria conquered Gandhara and Punjab in 184 BCE, establishing the Indo-Greek Kingdom that lasted nearly two centuries, until around 10 BCE.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pakistan.html (5707 words)

	Articles - India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stone Age rock shelters with paintings at Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh are the earliest known traces of human life in present-day India.
		This led to the establishment of the Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian kingdoms in the northern Indian Subcontinent, and finally the Kushan Empire.
		From the third century BCE, the Gupta dynasty oversaw the period referred to as ancient India´s "Golden Age".
	www.zdiamond.net /articles/India (654 words)

	ArtLex on Egyptian Art
		2620-2350 BCE (Old Kingdom, 4th or 5th Dynasty), painted limestone statue, eyes inlaid with rock crystal and alabaster, circled with copper, 53.7 x 44 x 35 cm, Louvre.
		Egypt, 203 BCE, Rosetta Stone, a slab of granite, 3 feet 9 inches x 2 feet 4 inches wide x 11 inches thick (118 x 77cm), the remains of a stele inscribed in three scripts: hieroglyphic, later Egyptian demotic -- a cursive form of ancient Egyptian, and ancient Greek.
		Carved on the stone is a decree by Egyptian priests to commemorate the crowning of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, king of Egypt from 203 - 181 BCE The Stone is an icon of script and decipherment.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/e/egyptian.html (737 words)

	Stone Pages • Glossary
		Continental people who first entered Britain around 2600 BCE, their name coming from the distinctive and elegant pots that were often buried with the dead under round barrows.
		The burial or funerary chamber is a stone or wooden construction greater than 2 x 1 externally and 1 x 1 m internally: these measurements distinguish it from the cist.
		Passage (sometimes with lateral chambers) leading to a broader burial chamber, often roofed, within round mound (which may be kerbed).
	www.stonepages.com /glossary.html (1734 words)

	history_of_hebrew by David Steinberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This language, which was spoken until the first century BCE, has left written records from about 2600 BCE.
		Probably even as late as 2000 BCE one can picture a situation where, from the desert fringes of Iraq through south-eastern Anatolia, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and the Arabian Peninsula a traveler could have passed from tribe to tribe and village to village noticing only very slight and gradual dialectical changes as he progressed.
		Aramaic and started a spread, helped by its use as a lingua franca, which would enable it, by 100 BCE to completely replace Akkadian in the North-East and, by 200 CE to displace Hebrew in the south.
	www.adath-shalom.ca /history_of_hebrew.htm (1141 words)

	The pentagram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		3500BCE) in ancient Mesopotamia where the general sense seems to be "heavenly body." By the cuneiform period (post 2600 BCE) the pentagram or symbol UB means "region," "heavenly quarter" or "direction".
		Historically, it does not appear to be equated with Venus.
		[4] De Vogel cites Eisler for an example of a pentagram on an Attic red-figured cup from the early 5th cent, BCE.
	www.freemasonry.bcy.ca /anti-masonry/pentagram.html (3517 words)

	EJVS-7-2.htm
		His discussion of the "kingdoms" of his time frame of 3500-1500 BCE is not tempered by discussion (or apparent knowledge) of semi-nomadic, transhumance life style or the workings of early pre-state tribal societies.
		1400 BCE are not mentioned anywhere in Talageri's book; the forms of these words are slightly older than the corresponding forms in the RV (ma-ash-da [mazd[h]a] for medhA, vaj'hana > vashana- [vazhhana] for vAhana.
		Further, by 3500 BCE (the date for his oldest book, RV 6) horse-drawn chariots were not even invented (even the bullock cart was only first appearing in Mesopotamia about that time).
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~witzel/EJVS-7-2.htm (19696 words)

	\| HISTORY OF ART \| Chapter 2 \| Page 1 \|
		Mythological figures, detail of the sound box of the bull lyre, Ur (modern Iraq).
		Wood with gold, lapis lazuli, and shell, 2680 BCE
		Worshipers and Deities, from the Temple of Abu in Tell Asmar (modern Iraq).
	www.ou.edu /class/ahi1113/html/ch-02-1.htm (118 words)

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