The excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik in the late 19th century provided initial evidence to scholars that there was an historical basis for the Trojan War. Research into oral epics in Ser ...
For modern scholars "the date of Homer" refers not to an individual, but to the period when the epics were created. The consensus used to be that "the Iliad and the Odyssey date from around the 8th ce ...
Little is known of Philitas' life. Ancient sources refer to him as a Coan, a native or long-time inhabitant of Cos, one of the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea just off the coast of Asia. His stud ...
According to Chinese mythology, the Zhou lineage began when a consort of the legendary Emperor Ku miraculously conceived Qi (lit. "the Abandoned One") after stepping into a divine footprint. Qi was a ...
There are numerous styles, or scripts, in which Chinese characters can be written, deriving from various calligraphic and historical models. Most of these originated in China and are now common, with ...
Main article: Chinese character classificationExcerpt from a 1436 primer on Chinese charactersChinese characters represent words of the language using several strategies. A few characters, including s ...
The Shizhoupian (Chinese: 史籀篇; pinyin: Sh?zhòupiān) was an early dictionary of Chinese characters written in the Great Seal script. The work was traditionally dated to the reign of King Xuan of ...
Chinese publishing houses print diverse types of zhuanke cidian (專科詞典/专科词典 "specialized dictionary"). One Chinese dictionary bibliography (Mathis et al. 1982) lists over 130 subject categories ...
The Chinese language has two words for dictionary: zidian (character/logograph dictionary) for written forms, that is, Chinese characters, and cidian (word/phrase dictionary), for spoken forms.For cha ...
Main articles: Neo-Babylonian Empire and ChaldeaIn 620 BC Nabopolassar seized control over much of Babylonia with the support of most of the inhabitants, with only the city of Nippur and some northern ...
Main article: First Babylonian DynastyDuring the third millennium BC, there had developed an intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism ...
The Urra=hubullu (ur5-ra=?ubullu, or Harra hubullu (Hh) ?AR-ra=?ubullu) is a major Babylonian glossary or "encyclopedia". It consists of Sumerian and Akkadian lexical lists ordered by topic. The ca ...
Origins See also: Anno DominiThe year numbering system used with Common Era notation was devised by the Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus in the year 525 to replace the Era of Martyrs system, because h ...
The name Syria is derived from the ancient Greek name for Syrians: Σ?ριοι, S?rioi, or Σ?ροι, S?roi, which the Greeks applied without distinction to the Assyrians. A number of modern schol ...
