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2nd millennium BC

  • Mycenaean GreeceThe year 1750 BC marks the beginning of a new era in mainland Greece, known as the Late Helladic period. Archaeologists trace the emergence of Mycenaean…
  • PhoeniciaThe name Phoenicia appears in Greek records from the 2nd millennium BC, yet it never corresponded to a unified native identity.
  • Indo-European migrationsIn 1786, Sir William Jones delivered a Third Anniversary Discourse to the Asiatic Society in India. He noted that Sanskrit shared systematic correspondences…