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Rediscovering the ancient social networks and industries of Indus Civilisation villages

Heritage Daily 29 Oct 2021

A team of international researchers have studied a range of ancient everyday pottery vessels – including jars, bowls, dishes and bottles – to reconstruct how Indus peoples developed and adopted unique technologies in the third millennium BC.

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Domestic horses originated on the steppes before spreading across Europe – study

AOL 20 Oct 2021

Researchers looked at the whole of Eurasia by analysing the genomes of 273 horses that lived between 50,000 and 200 years BC ... However, the scientists say the migrations of Indo-European populations, from the steppes to Europe during the third millennium BC could not have been based on the horse, as its domestication came later.

photo: Creative Commons

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New Ancient Middle Eastern Chronology Unlocks Hidden History Of Egypt and Mesopotamia

Ancient Origins 19 Oct 2021

This is especially true for the ancient Middle East ... After centuries of archaeological endeavours in the Middle East there is still no consensus about the dating of the early Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations—both in absolute terms as well as in relation to each other—especially for the third and early second millennium BC ... READ MORE… ... .

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Excavations at Historic Doliche, Turkey Reveal Ancient Religious Diversity

Ancient Origins 06 Oct 2021

Its roots go back to the Late Paleolithic period (30,000 to 40,000 BC), but it first became populated in larger numbers in the third millennium BC, when different groups including the Hurrians, Hattians, and Assyrians began to arrive and settle in central and southern Anatolia.

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Whites Don’t Count: Anti-White Activism in Intellectual History, by Tobias Langdon

The Unz Review 10 Sep 2021

However, “Arab Contribution” isn’t the right term, because some of the most important figures in the “Prelude to Modern Mathematics” were not Arab but Persian and hence from an area conquered by the Indo-Europeans in the third millennium BC ... Why so? Because China hasn’t opened its borders to the Third World and been massively enriched by Blacks.

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Desert road from Oman to Saudi Arabia will breathe new life into sleepy villages

The National 06 Sep 2021

Once abandoned, sleepy villages on the under-construction road from Oman to Saudi Arabia are coming back to life as residents hope for a more prosperous future ... It is expected to be finished by the end of the year ... It was built more than 40 years ago. Ibri is home to Bat, a Unesco world heritage site dating to the third millennium BC ... Sur ... .

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21 sites in the Gulf included in Unesco's World Heritage List

The National 01 Aug 2021

Located on the Tigris River in northern Mesopotamia, the ancient city of Ashur dates back to the third millennium BC ... Along with its neighbouring sites, Unesco states that it forms the world's most complete collection of settlements and necropolises from the third millennium BC.

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16 sites in the Gulf included in Unesco's World Heritage List

The National 01 Aug 2021

The sites include vestiges such as circular stone tombs, which date back to circa 2,500 BC, wells and a wide range of adobe constructions ... Along with its neighbouring sites, Unesco states that it forms the world's most complete collection of settlements and necropolises from the third millennium BC.

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Jordan's As-Salt joins India's Dholavira and Ivory Coast's mosques on Unesco list

The National 27 Jul 2021

Located north-west of Amman, Jordan, As-Salt has attracted settlers since the Iron Age, and is most distinctive for its architecture. 🔴 BREAKING! ... The ancient city of Dholavira in the state of Gujarat is one of the most remarkable and well-preserved urban settlements in South Asia dating from the third to mid-second millennium BC, Unesco states.

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33 new Unesco World Heritage Sites listed in 2021: Saudi Arabia's Hima to Jordan's As-Salt

The National 27 Jul 2021

Over 166 years, starting in 106 BC, the Romans extracted some 500 tonnes of gold from the site developing highly engineered works ... The ancient city of Dholavira in the Indian state of Gujarat is one of the most remarkable and well-preserved urban settlements in South Asia, dating from the third to mid-second millennium BC, Unesco says.

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Archaeologists Find Inscribed Stone Honoring Babylonian King Nabonidus

Ancient Origins 22 Jul 2021

The area around Fadak in northwestern Arabia was occupied from at least the first millennium BC to the early Islamic era (the seventh and eighth centuries AD) ... Relief of Ashurbanipal, who ruled as king of Assyria 669–631 BC ... This deity was an ancient one indeed, having originated in Sumer in the third millennium BC.

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Archaeologists Uncover Preserved Ancient Pottery Workshop in Egypt

Ancient Origins 12 Jul 2021

The Egyptian potter’s wheel was widely in use by the mid-third millennium BC, and was likely invented during Egypt’s glorious Old Kingdom period (also known as the Age of the Pyramids) ... in the workshop date it to sometime between the third century BC and the first century AD.

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Bitumen surfaces under the microscope

Science Daily 06 Jul 2021

Although the history of bitumen dates back to the third millennium BC, only little is known about its surface structure. Researchers are now shedding light on the nature of the bitumen surface using physicochemical analyses.  ... .

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The Elusive Origins Of The Danuna Of The Sea People

Ancient Origins 06 Jul 2021

... Hittite and Classical sources) come from the Amarna letters which date to the mid-14th century BC ... The letters are written in an Akkadian cuneiform script which was a common script and language used throughout both Mesopotamia and Canaan during the third and second millennium BC.

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100 Ancient Ruins Around the World

Heritage Daily 22 Jun 2021

The Kingdom of Kerma was an indigenous Nilotic culture that emerged around the mid-third millennium BC, most likely from the C-Group culture in the southern part of Upper Nubia ... It is the result of many phases of construction during late prehistory, with the earliest phase dating from the middle of the third millennium BC.