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  2. Recorded history - Wikipedia

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    Linear A etched on tablets found in Akrotiri, Santorini Palenque Glyphs that has a total of 92 glyphs on the tablet. Recorded history or written history describes the historical events that have been recorded in a written form or other documented communication which are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method.

  3. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    This article cites its sources but its page reference ranges are too broad or incorrect. Please help in adding a more precise page range. (July 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Survey of eight prominent scripts (left to right, top to bottom): Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, Maya script, Devanagari, Latin alphabet, Arabic alphabet, Braille Part of ...

  4. History of Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia's main page (20 December 2001) Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2]

  5. Timeline of ancient history - Wikipedia

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    The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...

  6. History - Wikipedia

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    History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts or traditional oral histories, art and material artefacts, and ecological ...

  7. List of oldest documents - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.

  8. Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia [c] is a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and is consistently ranked among the ten most visited websites ; as of August ...

  9. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    hand-written Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary and Creed [169] Katekizmas (1547) by Martynas Mažvydas was the first printed book in Lithuanian. 1517: Belarusian: Psalter of Francysk Skaryna: 1521: Romanian: Neacșu's Letter: Cyrillic orthographic manual of Constantin Kostentschi from 1420 documents earlier written usage. [170]