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	Semitic Museum - Nuzi - Yorghan Tepe (NF)
		Early 2nd Millennium BCE: Belonging to this period are a jar decorated with triangles and horizontal bands, an example of Habur Ware, and a bird-shaped vessel.
		Late 4th Millennium BCE: This period is represented by a beveled-rim bowl, characteristic of the Late Uruk Period, and by stamp seals.
		The jar and bottle are typical of the Akkadian period (late 3rd millennium BCE) in Mesopotamia.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/hsm/NFNuziRest.htm (539 words)

	Ussishkin : Tel Lachish \| The Shelby White - Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications
		Lachish was continuously settled from the Chalcolithic period in the 4th millennium BCE till the end of the Persian period in the middle of the first millennium BCE.
		This event is recorded in several different but complementary sources: The Old Testament and the Assyrian records; A series of stone reliefs erected by Sennacherib in his palace at Nineveh, the data from the city-level attacked by the Assyrians which was identified and excavated; the remains of the siege and battle uncovered in the excavations.
		In the seventh century BCE Lachish was rebuilt as a royal Judean stronghold.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/wl/digsites/Cisjordan/Lachish_97 (413 words)

	History \| Echmiadzin: TourArmenia
		In the 4th millennium BCE the cyclopic walls of Lechashen have been erected by Lake Sevan, while in the Ararat valley cities at Shengavit, Aigevan and Aigeshat were established.
		By 3000 BCE a large kingdom was established around Metsamor with additional cities at MokhraBlur, Jerahovit, Lejapi Blur, Voski Blur (Voski means "golden" in Armenian), and a settlement now known as Echmiadzin.
		Shengavit is distinct among the cities in Armenia for its use of round shaped dwellings made from river stones and mud brick.
	www.tacentral.com /echmiadzin/efs-4a.htm (606 words)

	Archaeology Insitute, Tel-Aviv University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lachish was continuously settled from the Chalcolithic period in the 4th millennium BCE until the end of the Persian period in the middle of the first millennium BCE.
		In the ninth century BCE Lachish was built and fortified by the kings of Judah, who turned it into a royal Judean stronghold-- second in importance to Jerusalem.
		It was attacked and destroyed in 587/6 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/archaeology/projects/lachish.html (813 words)

	11. Intro Sumerian Kinglist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Early Dynastic period ran from 2900 BCE to 2370 BCE and it is this period for which we begin to have more reliable written accounts although some of the great kings of this era later evolved mythic tales about them and were deified.
		Around 2500 BCE: King Lugalanemundu of Adab extends Sumer to cover the area from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea, bordering the Taurus mountains in the north, and the Zagros mountains in the east.
		Before the beginning of the 2d millennium BCE the Amorites, Semitic nomads from the desert to the west of Sumer and Akkad, invaded the kingdom.
	www.earth-history.com /Earth-11.htm (9912 words)

	Canaan & Ancient Israel @ University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
		The simple phonetic alphabet enabled the spread of literacy to the masses, rather than keeping it in the hands of the educated scribes.
		The cuneiform script was first developed by the Sumerians, but in the 3rd millennium BCE the Akkadians began using the script to write their language.
		Unlike cuneiform, however, the hieroglyphic pictographs were never stylized into linear symbols and use of hieroglyphics continued until the late 1st millennium BCE.
	www.museum.upenn.edu /Canaan/Writing.html (601 words)

	Pre-Indo-European - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orange is the Lengyel culture, purple the Vincha culture, red the Cucuteni culture and yellow the western part of the Yamna culture.
		1700 BCE (the beginning of the Bronze Age in northwest Europe).
		According to the Kurgan hypothesis, Indo-European peoples arrived in the 4th millennium BC across the steppes north of the Black Sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_European_culture (1118 words)

	Timna: Valley of the Ancient Copper Mines
		Already in the Chalcolithic period (4th millennium BCE), iron ore (available in Timna) was added as flux to the smelting charge of copper ore and charcoal, which greatly improved the smelting.
		The temple was badly damaged by earthquake and rebuilt during the reign of Pharaoh Ramses II (1304-1237 BCE), with an enlarged courtyard (10 x 9 m.) and a new, solid white floor.
		With the decline of Egyptian control of the region in the middle of the 12th century BCE, the mines at Timna and the Hathor temple were abandoned.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Archaeology/timna.html (1363 words)

	Histroy Homepage
		At the dawn of urbanization in the 4th millennium BCE (ca.
		By the 2nd millennium, Megiddo was a center of Egyptian administration in Canaan.
		In the 14th century BCE archive of el-Amarna in Egypt, six letters sent by Biridiya, King of Megiddo, to the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten were discovered.
	jbe.la.psu.edu /jst/MEGIDDO/meg98final/supers/../history/index.htm (1943 words)

	Beit She'an
		During the Late Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age (15th-12th centuries BCE), Beit She'an was an important city and served, as did Megiddo, as a center of Egyptian imperial administration in northern Canaan.
		Beit She'an is mentioned in written sources of the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE describing the conflict between the Ptolemids and the Seleucids (inheritors of the empire of Alexander the Great) over control of the Land of Israel, and with reference to the wars of the Hasmoneans to gain independence from Seleucid rule.
		The western colonnade of the street was re-paved in the 4th century, according to a mosaic inscription, during the governorship of Palladius son of Porfirius.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Archaeology/Beitshean.html (4878 words)

	IRANIAN GEOGRAPHY: SALMAS - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		It is believed that the town of Salmas has been in existence from the third millennium BCE under the rule of the Assyrian King Salmasar III.
		According to ancient tales, Salmas was initially established in the third millennium BCE and under the rule of the Assyrian King Shalmasar III.
		Around 1000 BCE, the migrated Aryan tribes settled in the area, and later became part of their first Iranian dynastic empire, the Medians.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Geography/salmas.htm (1326 words)

	Early history - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This article details the timeline since the 5th Millennium BCE until the 16th century.
		BCE: 5th Millennium BCE / 4th Millennium BCE / 3rd Millennium BCE / 2nd Millennium BCE / 1st Millennium BCE
		4th Century CE The Jem'Hadar begin serving as the Dominion's front line of defense.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Early_History (1668 words)

	The Megiddo Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Overlying this is an Iron Age stratum, possibly from the 10th century BCE (Low Chronology).
		Unique in this country, it is probably the tomb of one of the monarchs of Megiddo in the second millennium BCE.
		We were able to date the tomb to the later phase of the Late Bronze Age and to redate some of the elements in this area to the Late Bronze Age, rather than to the Middle Bronze Age, as previously suggested.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/archaeology/megiddo/excavations2.html (768 words)

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		This layout is already evidenced as sanctuaries in Anatolia in the 4th millennium BCE.
		During the 3rd millennium BCE the megaron plan was also applied to temples in northern Syria (Tell Hawara).
		Three temples excavated at Ebla (Syria) and dated to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, exhibit the same plan: one had a niche in its rear wall for accommodating the statue of the deity.
	archpark.org.il /article.asp?period_id=3&id=385 (241 words)

	Ebon Musings: Let the Stones Speak
		For example, the name "Abram", as both a male and a female name, is known from the Neo-Assyrian period, and "Abraham" occurs throughout the first millennium BCE, including on a stele erected by Pharaoh Shishak to commemorate a military campaign in the southern kingdom of Judah (Van Seters 1975, p.
		However, the only time in which "nations" could refer to the kingdom of Hatti is in the middle of the first millennium BCE, when the Hittites were more a coalition of petty kingdoms and city-states than a single unified empire (Van Seters 1975, p.
		During the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, a lucrative trade network flourished in Palestine, originating in the Arabian peninsula where goods such as gold, spices and incense were brought by caravan through the deserts of southern Judah to Syria, Egypt and Mediterranean ports.
	www.ebonmusings.org /atheism/otarch1.html (4977 words)

	Gene Expression: The Sword of Empiricism
		It is a well-documented archeological fact, that in the first half of the 4th millennium BCE, when the first walled cities and political states began to appear in Mesopotamia, there were still examples of hunting-and-gathering societies existing in the uncultivated countryside, in plain sight for everyone to see.
		Joines, was predominant during much of the 3rd millennium BCE and treated the serpent as a symbol of life and immortality.
		At the very bottom of the pit, as it were, in layers that could be dated to the 4th millennium BCE, the serpent was functioning as something quite different -- but also something that archeologists and anthropologists are far more familiar with, from sites all around the world.
	www.gnxp.com /MT2/archives/002056.html (2100 words)

	Kayseri
		Kayseri has 3 covered bazaars, the oldest from the 15th century, which are all very much active.
		Near Kayseri lies the ancient Hittite-Assyrian city of Kanesh, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE, which holds thousands of clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions, telling us about the economic life of the period.
		Its earliest recorded name was Mazaca from the 1st millennium BCE, while its Cappadocian kings called it Eusebia.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/kayseri.htm (376 words)

	Art History 307: Early Chinese Art: From Antiquity to the 10th Century: Neolithic
		Pitcher on 3 legs, pottery, late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BCE, Shandong Longshan culture (Neolithic).
		Burial with jade ritual implements, 3rd millennium BCE, Liangzhu culture (Neolithic).
		Ritual disk (bi), jade, 3rd millennium BCE, Liangzhu culture (Neolithic).
	www.wisc.edu /arth2test/ah307/neolith.html (188 words)

	History of Iran: Iranologie.com
		The origins of most of the earliest human settlements in the plateau are not known and they seem to be local, developing from hunter-gatherer stage to the settled farmers settling in the mountains or plains of southern Caspian coast and northern Persian Gulf.
		Between 8,000 to 6,000 BCE, the earliest signs of settlement and domestication of animals appears in west and south-western Iran, followed by appearance of painted pottery.
		Prior to their arrival, the plains of northern Persian Gulf were among the oldest civilised areas in the world history and the site of Susa was inhabited as far back as 4,200 BCE and had come under the rule of the kings of Akkad.
	www.iranologie.com /history/history1.html (3409 words)

	4th millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 4th millennium BCE saw major changes in human culture.
		The city states of Sumer and the kingdom of Egypt are established and grow to prominence.
		World population in the course of the millennium doubles, approximately from 7 to 14 million people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/4th_millennium_BC (859 words)

	1650 BCE: Chaos and Catastrophe
		Around 1640 BCE, towards the end of the "Middle Kingdom", central authority in lower Egypt seemed suddenly to perish and the rulers of the land fleed to the southern city of Thebes leaving the capital in Memphis, while some nomadic tribes supposedly coming from Asia were plundering the towns around the Nile delta.
		The rulers of Lower Egypt between 1640-1550 BCE were very unpopular for the New Kingdom pharaohs without any doubt, because they had shaken the unified situation of the Empire and had it divided.
		It is almost certain that the catastrophes between 1650 and 1630 BCE were among the most important factors that changed the course of human civilization.
	www.planetxinbound.com /1650BCE_01.htm (3823 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 4th millennium BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 4th millennium BC Advanced Search
		(5th millennium BC – 4th millennium BC – 3rd millennium BC - other millennia)
		Sumerian city of Ur in Mesopotamia (40th century BC); Sumerian hegemony in Mesopotamia, with the invention of writing, base-60 mathematics, astronomy and astrology, civil law, complex hydrology, the sailboat, the wheel, and the potter's wheel, 4000–2000 BCE.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/4th_millennium_BC.html (515 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: Religions (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the 4th century BCE their influence and territories covered the length of Europe, stretching from Britain to Asia Minor.
		It originated somewhere in the 7th-5th century BCE and evolved into a cultural system that has made significant contributions to Indian philosophy.
		It is the complex expression of a religious and ethnic community, a way of life as well as a set of basic beliefs and values, which is discerned in patterns of action, social order, and culture as well as in religious statements and concepts.
	www.pantheon.org.cob-web.org:8888 /miscellaneous/religions.html (1024 words)

	EdensFourRivers
		A Mesopotamian text of the 2d millennium BCE has the flood at a city called Shuruppak in Sumer, its king, called Ziusudra (also called Atrahasis and Utnapishtim) is warned by his god Enki to build a boat and save himself, family and animals.
		I understand that Genesis was written in the Exile circa 560 BCE, by one author who used earlier compositions and traditions, mixing a 6th century BCE world with that of the 5th millennium BCE.
		Factoring this in with Roaf's, Pollock's and Leick's observation that in the 4th milllennium BCE the Euphrates split from the Tigris, we have four streams crossing the floodplain in antiquity.
	www.bibleorigins.net /EdensFourRivers.html (10456 words)

	Custom Made Ties, Bespoke Ties, Pocket Squares, Silk Scarves, Silk Shawls, Thai Silk fabric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the middle of the 4th millennium BCE the first linen fabrics used for ceremonial pocket squares were found at Hierakonpolis.
		By 2,000 BCE wealthy Egyptians were carrying the first true pocket squares made of bleached white linen.
		By the 4th century CE the Roman clergy were wearing a white linen ceremonial handkerchief (pallium linostinum) over the left arm.
	www.mulberrywood.com /pocketsquarehistory.htm/pocketsquarehistory.htm (1837 words)

	Ancient Egyptian pottery
		This simple procedure brought forth the elegant and astonishingly thin-walled vessels of the Naqada II period [9] (2nd half of the 4th millennium BCE).
		The potter's wheel, which came into use during the Old Kingdom (27th to 22nd century BCE) was rotated by hand, and it was not until two millennia later that the kick wheel was introduced which at last freed both hands.
		The fl decorative upper rim and inside of the fl-topped pottery possibly stem from smouldering chaff or other organic materials the pots were placed in upside down before or after firing [7].
	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/pottery (2205 words)

	AH 370/EA 355 Arts of China: #1 Neolithic China
		The early phase is represented by the Banpo site, whose remains date to the early 5th millennium BCE.
		Subsequent phases continue to evolve through the 4th millennium BCE.
		Shandong Longshan culture (late 3rd - early 2nd millennium BCE, sometimes called the "Black Pottery" culture).
	www.wisc.edu /arth/ah370/ah370s1.html (443 words)

	Ancient Egypt: Mining
		Existing iron ore deposits were not exploited in ancient Egypt until the Late Period, but the metal was occasionally found in its meteoric form and put to use as early as the 4th millennium BCE.
		By 200 BCE the Egyptians had learned to purify the alloy, which generally contained between 10 and 20% silver, with salt to remove the silver.
		Near Serabit el-Khadim, a few kilometres inland from the western cost of the Sinai peninsula, turquoise deposits were discovered by the middle of the fourth millennium BCE and taken over by the Egyptians a few centuries later.
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /timelines/topics/mining.htm (2453 words)

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