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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Aramaic alphabet
The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is an offshoot of the Phoenician alphabet used to write the Hebrew language from about the 10th century BCE until it began to fall out of use in the 5th century BCE with the adoption of the Aramaic alphabet as a writing system for Hebrew and...
The use of Aramaic as a lingua franca throughout the Middle East from the 8th century BCE led to the gradual adoption of the Aramaic alphabet for writing Hebrew.
Controversially, it is claimed that the Aramaic alphabet may be the forebear of the Indic alphabets.
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 Ibiza - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 654 BCE Phoenician settlers founded a port in the Balearic Islands, as Ibossim, later known to Romans (as "Ebusus") for its wine, marble, and lead.
Iberia began setting up its own trading stations along the nearby Balearic island of Mallorca, from which great quantities of the reknowned Balearic slingers were hired as mercenaries for the diverse wars Carthage was fighting.
During the Second Punic War the island was assaulted by the two Scipio brothers [209 BCE] but remained loyal to Carthage.
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During the period of the Median Empire (about 600 BCE), Herat was recognized as Aria and was an important part of several Persian Empires.
The city of Herat became well known with the advent of the Arabs in the middle of the seventh century.
When the Arab armies appeared in Khorasan in the 650s, Herat was counted among the twelve capital towns of the Sasanian Empire.
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 CalendarHome.com - 630s BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
632 BCE - In the Battle of Chengpu, the Chinese kingdom of Jin and her allies defeat the kingdom of Chu and her allies.
638 BCE - Birth of Solon, lawmaker of Athens.
635 BCE - Birth of Thales, Greek philosopher (+ 543 BCE).
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 A9, Individual Submissions, Session 1
The heavily Levantized material culture of the late Philistines was the result of "acculturation" (culture change resulting from continuous interaction between culture groups), not "assimilation" (the fusion of two previously distinct culture groups).
The size of the mound is 12 ha, and in the course of the excavation, the remains of a fortified city from the Iron II period were exposed in areas B and G. The first settlement from this period (stratum IVd), was an unwalled city from the tenth century BCE.
The citadel of Ayanis, ancient "Rusahinili before Mt. Eiduru" was founded in the late 650s BC on the shore of Lake Van.
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.06.29
I shall draw out in particular Rochberg's scattered comments on the locations and sites of Babylonian intellectual culture, as it seems to me that the much neglected social geography of Babylonian intellectual enquiry is a potentially fruitful area of historical investigation.
Celestial divination -- the observation and ominous interpretation of events in the night sky -- is first witnessed in a letter from the city of Mari on the upper Euphrates, c.1765 BCE.
The recipient is a king, the author not a diviner of observed omens but an extispicer, a reader of the signs revealed in the configuration of the entrails of sacrificed sheep.
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