File Map of Aksum and South Arabia ca. 230 AD.jpg right 250px thumb The economy of the Qataban Kingdom of Qataban light blue was based on the cultivation and trade of spices and aromatics including ... more details
Ancient redirects here. For other uses, see Antiquity disambiguation . The times before writing belong either to protohistory or to prehistory . Image Egypt.Giza.Sphinx.01.jpg thumb right 300px Khafre s Pyramid Fourth dynasty of Egypt 4th dynasty and Great Sphinx of Giza c. 2500 BC or perhaps earlier Ancient history Human history and prehistory 200 Ancient history is the history study of the written past ref Crawford, O. G. S. 1927 . Antiquity. Gloucester, Eng. Antiquity Publications etc. . cf., History education in the United States is primarily the study of the written past. Defining history in such a narrow way has important consequences ... ref from the beginning of history of writing recorded human history to the Early Middle Ages . The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, with Cuneiform script , the oldest discovered form of coherent writing, from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC. ref see Jemdet Nasr period , Kish tablet see also The Origin and Development of the Cuneiform System of Writing , Samuel Noah Kramer, Thirty Nine Firsts In Recorded History , pp 381 383 ref This is the beginning of history , as opposed to prehistory , according to the definition used by most historian s. ref name wordnet http wordnet.princeton.edu perl webwn WordNet Search 3.0 , History ref The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the Old World from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC First Olympiad . This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome , and the beginning of the Archaic Greece Archaic period in Ancient Greece . Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western culture Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, ref Clare, I. S. 1906 . Library of universal history containing a record of the human race from the earliest historical period to the present time embracing a general sur ... more details
About a decorative art align right image Mosaic01.jpg thumb Irano Roman floor mosaic detail from the palace of Shapur I at Bishapur . Image Pergamonmuseum Inanna 01.jpg thumb cone mosaic courtyard from Uruk in Mesopotamia 3000 BC File Fur mosaic Emperior Franz Josef.jpg thumb Fur mosaic with portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass , stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of Decorative arts decorative art , an aspect of interior decoration , or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral . Small pieces, normally roughly cube cubic , of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae , diminutive tessellae , are used to create a pattern or picture. History File Deer hunt mosaic from Pella.jpg thumb Ancient Greek mosaic, a deer hunt, detail from the mosaic floor, signed Gnosis artist Gnosis created in the House of the Abduction of Helen at Pella , late 4th century BC, Pella Archaeological Museum. File Mosa que d Ulysse et les sir nes.jpg thumb left Roman mosaic of Odysseus Ulysses , from Carthage. Now in the Bardo Museum , Tunisia Image Dom dramaturga.jpg thumb left Cave canem mosaics Beware of the dog were a popular motif for the thresholds of Roman Empire Roman villas Image mosaic.woodchester.arp.750pix.jpg thumb A small part of The Great Pavement , a Roman mosaic laid in AD 325 at Woodchester , Gloucestershire , England. File Mosaic of The Beauty of Durr s.jpg thumb left The mosaic of The Beauty of Durr s , late 4th century BC. Now in the National Historical Museum Albania National Historical Museum in Tirana File Silchester mosaic.jpg thumb right upright Roman mosaic found at Calleva Atrebatum in the Roman province of Britannia The earliest known examples of mosaics made of different materials were found at a temple building in Abra, Mesopotamia , and are dated to the second half of 3rd millennium BC. They consist of pieces of colored stones ... more details
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