The Poetic Stela of Thutmose III
This granite stela (carved slab) was created during the reign of King/Pharaoh Thutmose III of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled from around 1479–1425…
Read moreFirst-wave (3)
First-wave state-level civilizations begin in Mesopotamia and Egypt in the late fourth millennium BCE. It ends in Europe and western Asia with the end of the Bronze Age around 1200–1100 BCE and by the eighth century BCE in China.
The Kamose Texts
Possibly written by "Neshi," who names himself as the "overseer of the treasury," these inscriptions on two different stone blocks were made during the reign…
Read morePrologue and Epilogue to the Code of Hammurabi
While not the first code of laws, the Code of Hammurabi, who was king of the city-state of Babylon c.1792–1750 BCE, is the the earliest…
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