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Mark Twain's novel, featuring a fictional portrayal of Edward VI of England. The Return of Martin Guerre: 1982: 1548–1588: The case of Martin Guerre in France – a true case of identity theft. Stars of Eger: 1968: 1552: During the Ottoman–Hungarian wars, after the Ottomans have taken Buda, the Hungarian Capital (in 1541), the siege of Eger ...
Films set in ancient Mesopotamia. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. B. Films set in Babylonia (1 C, ...
The history of the ancient Near East begins with the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BC, though the date it ends varies. The term covers the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in the region, until either the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC, that by the Macedonian Empire in the 4th century BC, or the Muslim conquests in the ...
Once Upon a Time in Mesopotamia (French: Il était une fois la Mésopotamie; German: Es war einmal in Mesopotamien) is a 1998 French documentary film adapted from the nonfiction book of the same name by French Assyriologist Jean Bottéro and archaeologist Marie-Joseph Stève.
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 ...
Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia. The Civilization of Mesopotamia ranges from the earliest human occupation in the Paleolithic period up to Late antiquity.This history is pieced together from evidence retrieved from archaeological excavations and, after the introduction of writing in the late 4th millennium BC, an increasing amount of historical sources.
Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, [1] [2] offers a description of the story surrounding how humanity was created by the gods, how the office of kingship entered human civilization, the circumstances leading to the origins of the first cities, and the global flood.
Megalithic, Corded Ware culture and the Beaker flourish in Europe. [3] Sumerian poetry, lamenting the death of Tammuz, the shepherd god. Sumerian cuneiform writing (reduces pictographs still in use to about 550 BC). Major religious festival in Sumeria celebrates victory of god of spring over goddess of chaos. Earliest Trojan culture. Glass ...