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Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that were recorded on a variety of media, including stone, clay tablets, papyri, palm leaves, and metal.
A very good example of the usage of palm leaf manuscripts to store history is a Tamil grammar book named Tolkāppiyam, written around the 3rd century BCE. [18] A global digitalization project led by the Tamil Heritage Foundation collects, preserves, digitizes, and makes ancient palm-leaf manuscript documents available to users via the internet.
The Journal of Near Eastern Studies [1] is an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press, covering research on the ancient and medieval civilizations of the Near East, including their archaeology, art, history, literature, linguistics, religion, law, and science.
2634-2367 (print) 2634-2375 (web) Journal of Open Archaeology Data [16] Ubiquity Press: 2012: 1: Yes: 2049-1565: Journal of Roman Archaeology: Cambridge University Press: 1988: 1 — 1047-7594 (print) 2331-5709 (web) Journal of Social Archaeology: SAGE: 2001: 3 — 1469-6053 (print) 1741-2951 (web) Journal of Swiss Archaeology and Art History ...
Drawing inspiration from classical literature, Prodromos authored major works such as the parody The War of the Cat and the Mouse, the dialogue Friendship in Exile, satires On a Lustful Old Woman and On an Old Bearded Man, the didactic poem Astrological Work, and Verses on the Twelve Months.
Later medieval examples tend to be more detailed and less generic than early ones, and to place an increasing emphasis on secular over religious aspects. For example, Bonvesin della Riva 's 1288 description of Milan, De Magnalibus Urbis Mediolani , contains a wealth of detailed facts and statistics about such matters as local crops.
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 ...
The Dialogue of Pessimism is an ancient Mesopotamian literary composition in the form of a dialogue between a master and his slave. Its interpretations have varied, but it is generally considered an unusual text which thematises the futility of human action. It is an example of ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature.