Curated category
Ancient peoples
- OlmecsIn the swampy lowlands of modern-day Veracruz and Tabasco, a civilization began to take shape around 1500 BC. The Olmecs flourished in an environment defined…
- Jōmon periodThe Jōmon period spans approximately 14,000 years of Japanese history. Archaeologists divide this vast era into six distinct phases based on ceramic typology…
- Ancient EgyptIn the year 3150 BC, a man named Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt along the banks of the Nile River. This event marked the beginning of a civilization that…
- AryanIn the 6th century BCE, a stone monument known as the Behistun inscription declared itself written in arya language. This Old Persian text described the…
- OeseliansThe island of Ösel sits in the Baltic Sea, a place known to history as Saaremaa. Before the Northern Crusades began in the 13th century, people lived there…
- NubiaThe Nile River flows through a region that became known as Nubia, stretching from the confluence of the Blue and White Niles near Khartoum in central Sudan…
- Proto-Indo-EuropeansPhilologist Martin L. West once stated that if an Indo-European language existed, a people who spoke it must have followed.