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	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.
		The fire pit under the main altar is a zoroastrian (5th c.
	www.tacentral.com /echmiadzin/efs-4a.htm (606 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)

	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.
		It comes from the late 3rd millennium BCE and is the earliest known map in existence.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~semitic/hsm/NFNuziRest.htm (539 words)

	Tell Halaf - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The site dates back to the 6th millennium BCE and was later the location of the Aramaean city-state of Guzana.
		In 894 BCE, the Assyrian king Adad-nirari II recorded it in his archives as a tributary Aramaean city-state.
		After a short period of independence, Semiramis sacked the city in 808 BCE and reduced the surrounding area to a province of the Assyrian Empire.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Tell_Halaf (844 words)

	Mari, Syria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mari was an ancient city in Syria situated at the modern locality of Tell Hariri, on the western bank of Euphrates river.
		It is thought to have been inhabited since the 5th millennium BCE, although it flourished from 2900 BCE until 1759 BCE, when it was sacked by Hammurabi.
		Mari had been inhabited since the 5th millennium BCE, but the real significance of the city was during the third and second millennia BCE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mari,_Syria (916 words)

	Paros island - Paros and Antiparos maps and yacht charter guide, sailing holidays Paros
		Excavations have yielded evidence of settlement in the Late Neolithic period (5th-4th millennium BCE).
		In the 1st millennium BCE the Ionian Greeks settled on Paros and made it a considerable sea-power, minting its own coins; in the 7th c.
		BCE Paros was celebrated for its school of sculptures.
	www.sailingissues.com /greekislands/paros.html (501 words)

	Samovila-Yemaya
		Scatha's helmet is from a Celtic grave in Ciumesti, Romania, 3rd century BCE ; her torque is from Snettisham (Norfolk), England, mid 1st century BCE.
		Her necklace is from Deir el-Balah, 14th-13th century BCE; her earring is from a falcon pendant from Tell el-Ajjul, mid 2nd millennium BCE.
		3500 BCE, near Belgrade, Yugoslavia; on the left is a Goddess with a siren, canines and lions, 5th century BCE, Kherson mound, Ukraine; gold headdress after one found at Chertomlyk, 4th century BCE; bottom layer after a diadem from Kelermes, 6th century BCE; earring from Olbia, 5th century BCE; torque from Chertomlyk, 4th century BCE.
	www.goddessmyths.com /Samovila-Yemaya.html (1500 words)

	Mnemotrix Israel, Ltd. - Come Tour, Explore, and Excavate with US!
		The population of Hazor in the second millennium BCE is estimated to have been about 20,000, making it the largest and most important city in the entire region.
		The first settlement of Hazor, in the third millennium BCE (Early Bronze Age), was confined to the upper city.
		The lower city was founded in approximately the 18th century BCE (Middle Bronze Age) and continued to be settled until the 13th century (the end of the Late Bronze Age) when both the upper and lower city were violently destroyed.
	www.mnemotrix.com /israel/history.html (2338 words)

	11. Intro Sumerian Kinglist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of the Greeks, Herodotus of Halicarnassus (5th century BCE, a contemporary of Xerxes I and Artaxerxes I) was the first to report on "Babylon and the rest of Assyria"; at that date the Assyrian empire had been overthrown for more than 100 years.
		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)

	BCEsiteV.09home
		Presented on 5th February 2001 by BCE Founder Sir Peter Parker and by the incoming President for the scheme, Sir Anthony Cleaver, Chairman of AEA Technology and prominent environmentalist.
		The BCE Assessors believe that this comprehensive and imaginative scheme is worthy of a BCE Premier Award.
		The BCE Assessor concluded: "The project combines the best of new technology in an imaginative format whilst encouraging and educating a deprived community, providing a boost to the regeneration of the area.
	www.bceawards.org /winners2000.htm (3074 words)

	5 Mill Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		By the end of the fifth millennium the standing pose became a common representation for Mesopotamian anthropomorphic figurines, in later millennia, it becomes the standard pose.
		Until very recently it was assumed that prehistoric Cyprus was cut off from mainland influences soon after the arrival of the first colonists in the 7th millennium BC calibrated and developed in cultural isolation until the advent of the Early Bronze Age at the end of the 3rd millennium BC calibrated.
		Focus is the situation during the 5th millennium as seen from Tell Mashnaqa in east Syria.
	www.art.man.ac.uk /ARTHIST/5mill-abs.htm (5594 words)

	EdensFourRiversPartTwo
		Archaeologists have determined that the ancestors of the 6th/5th millennium BCE settlers of edin-the-plain of Lower Mesopotamia were earlier dwellers of villages located in the Taurus and Zagros mountain ranges abuting the Mesopotamian plains.
		Brinkman in discussing the hydrological features of 1st millennium BCE Babylonia in Lower Mesopotamia, noted that this region was possessed of 3 major "watercourses," the Purattu (Euphrates), and its sub-branches, the Abgal (later called Apkallatu, the Greeks' Pallakottas) and the Arakhtu.
		The 3rd millennium BCE Shuruppak flood (revealed by excavations to be a flooding Euphrates) has been determined to be the "source" of Genesis' Noahic Flood by some scholars and I am in agreement with their assessment.
	www.bibleorigins.net /EdensFourRiversPartTwo.html (6011 words)

	Dubenegoldeba
		The oldest gold objects in Bulgaria and in the world come from later 5th millennium cal BCE, most popular of which are those from the Varna cemetery.
		In the third millennium cal BCE in the Bulgarian lands there is a second period of distribution of gold adornments, this time together with silver objects.
		During the third millennium Thrace was a flourishing region in close contacts with Troy (I-III) and the northwestern Balkans.
	www.iianthropology.org /Dubenegoldeba (375 words)

	History of Chinese Religion - ReligionFacts
		There is evidence of persons who acted as divination specialists as early as the 4th millennium BCE, and the 3rd millennium BCE saw the rise of lavish expenditures on tomb ramps and coffin chambers.
		There is occasional evidence of human sacrifice in the 4th and 3rd millennia, primarily in the form of a dependent accompanying his or her superior in death.
		Shih huang-ti died in 210 or 209 BCE while on a tour of the empire.
	www.religionfacts.com /chinese_religion/history.htm (3954 words)

	The Arabian Gulf
		Written records from Sumer dated around 3,000 BCE mention a place called Magan, from where copper was obtained; possibly this was a culture in the southeastern Arabian Peninsula.
		From 1,200 BCE on, the Assyrians used this road to connect the trading centre of Susa, in present-day Iran, with the Mediterranean ports of Smyrna and Ephesus, in present-day Turkey.
		By the middle of the 6th century BCE the Achaemenians had established an empire which, at its height, stretched throughout the Near East from the Indus valley to Libya, and north to Macedonia.
	www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae /english/history/history_gulf.asp (1451 words)

	Ancient Egypt: Flax and linen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The oldest depiction of a loom was found at Badari on a pottery dish dating from the middle of the 5th millennium BCE while the first known pictures of weavers were drawn during the Middle Kingdom.
		By 3000 BCE the Egyptian weavers were capable of weaving the finest of cloth with 64 warp threads and 48 weft threads per centimetre.
		About 6th dynasty (ca 2100 BCE) cloth it was said, it was so fine it could be pulled through a signet ring, a similar claim was made by Pliny concerning first millennium linen [3].
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /timelines/topics/flax.htm (2282 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)

	Cyclades - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
		A distinctive Neolithic culture amalgamating Anatolian and mainland Greek elements arose in the western Aegean before 4000 BCE, based on emmer wheat and wild-type barley, sheep and goats, pigs, and tuna that were apparently speared from small boats (Rutter).
		The first archaeological excavations of the 1880s were followed by systematic work by the British School at Athens and by Christos Tsountas, who investigated burial sites on several islands in 1898 - 1899 and coined the term "Cycladic civilization".
		Early Cycladic culture evolved in three phases, between ca 3300 - 2000 BCE, when it was increasingly swamped in the rising influence of Minoan Crete.
	www.medbib.com /Cyclades (542 words)

	5th millennium BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		5th millennium BC 6th millennium BC – 5th millennium BC – 4th millennium BC – other millennia)
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/5/5t/5th_millennium_bc.html (145 words)

	GLOBAL VISION : IRELAND : ASTROARCHAEOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The data shown are the maximum moons for the periods Aug 23, 2929 BCE - Sep 4, 2926 BCE; Feb 15, 2910 BCE - Feb 24, 2907 BCE; Feb 15, 2891 BCE - Feb 24, 2888; Sep 15, 2873 BCE - Sep 30, 2870 BCE.
		This is a very interesting text from a first century BCE Roman historian, referring to legends told by a Greek named Hecataeus and others.
		I think that is enough reason for keeping 19 year lunar cycles in mind when looking at these monuments, when trying to interpret what the monuments themselves can tell us in their architecture and in their art.
	www.global-vision.org /ireland/stones/sunmoon/index.html (8500 words)

	1st millennium BCE
		The first known reference to the Yuezhi was made in 645 BCE by the Chinese economist Guan Zhong.
		As early as the mid-first millennium BCE the Yuezhi engaged in the jade trade, of which the major consumers were the rulers of agricultural...
		By the last centuries BCE the Mediterranean, the Ganges and the Yellow River became the seats of empires which future rulers would strive to imitate.
	www.experiencefestival.com /1st_millennium_bce/page/2 (1193 words)

	EdensFourRivers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That is to say by the time Abraham was born in the 3rd millennium BCE, the Lower Mesopotamian motifs about "why and how the gods had come to make man" had long been transplanted to edin-the-plain or high steppe of Northern Mesopotamia with the cities planted there as trade outposts of Akkad and Sumer.
		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.
	www.bibleorigins.net /EdensFourRivers.html (10450 words)

	Jewish National Fund:
		It is the story of the birth of the Bronze Age around the fourth millennium BCE, which propelled the world to a new level of production, artistry, and sophistication.
		It is the story of the fantastical copper mines in Israel's Timna Valley - and how JNF and champions of preservation like Milwaukee's Avrum Chudnow are reconstructing some 17,500 acres in the Negev, the site of one of the world's finest archeological wonders.
		At the end of the 14th century BCE, as the Egyptian Empire grew and word of the copper-rich area spread, the Egyptians established a trade route leading directly through the Timna Valley.
	www.jnf.org /site/PageServer?pagename=Timna (1004 words)

	Paganism in Provence - Vincent Bridges
		Semitic civilisation arrived with the Phoenicians in the middle of the second millennium BCE and forced the Neolithic Ligurians into the Bronze Age.
		Neolithic farmers, the Ligurian ancestors, arrived early in the seventh millennium BCE, and dwelt in Arcadian simplicity until Bronze Age trading cultures, such as the Egyptian, Mycenaean, and most significantly the Phoenician arrived in the second millennium.
		In the late first century BCE, a part of a private dwelling was converted to a shrine to Cybele, the Anatolian Great Mother of the Gods brought to Rome in the form of her mystereion, a fl meteorite stone, at the height of the Second Punic War in 204 BCE.
	www.jwmt.org /v1n6/provence.html (6162 words)

	Workshop II Programme
		millennium BCE have indicated continuity with the preceding Chalcolithic culture of the Northern Negev that thrived in the late 5
		However, the large villages that were established and flourished during the late 5th into the first centuries of the 4th millennium were abandoned by ca.
		The site of Tell esh-Shuna has produced a well-dated sequence of occupation which covers the beginning of the 5th millennium cal. BC (early Chalcolithic) and much of the middle (early EB I) and late (late EB I) 4th millennium cal. bc.
	www.uam.es /otroscentros/asiriologiayegipto/5icaane/ws2_prog.html (2924 words)

	Pagan Sites of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was identified to the modern world in 1964 and the first of its several phases of construction took place in the 5th millennium BCE (early Neolithic).
		It stands on a gentle slope facing east near the summit of an important hilltop somewhat near Evora, in the region of Alentejo.
		It is likely to have been erected during the beginning of the fourth millennium BCE.
	www.druidry.org /obod/touchstone/portugal.html (1267 words)

	÷åøåú çééí ãø ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Trained in materials science and with extensive archaeological field experience, he studies all aspects of the metallurgical process, from smelting to metal finishing, from the first use of metal and alloys in the 5th-4th millennium BCE in Israel, to the traditional craft of brass and bronze sand-casting of today.
		His finding that the chemical and metallographic data from the 5th-3rd millennium BCE reflect a radical change in metal craft specialization provides, for the first time, the missing socio-economic link for theories explaining the beginning of urbanization and social complexity in the Southern Levant.
		His novel observation of changes in chemical composition and mechanical properties of metal blades during the 3rd-1st millennium BCE indicates how the parameter of material properties can influence the final appearance of end products, until now thought of as reflecting changes in taste.
	research.haifa.ac.il /~maritime/staff/shalev/cv.htm (420 words)

	History \| Echmiadzin: TourArmenia
		The surrounding area is called “Armenia’s Cradle of Civilization” for the numerous mound excavations revealing fortified cities and advanced cultures going back to the 8th millennium BCE.
		These are the remains of the first urban civilization to leave its imprint in Historical Armenia, Armenia's "Cradle of Civilization".
		The culture was the earliest known to process bronze and iron, and are believed to be among the first (if not the first) astronomers, mapping the night sky as early as the 3rd millennium BC.
	www.tacentral.com /echmiadzin/efs-4.htm (442 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.
		Old Europe, or Neolithic Europe, refers to the time between the Mesolithic and Bronze Age periods in Europe, roughly from 7000 BCE (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) to ca.
		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 (1104 words)

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