ESSENTIAL RESOURCES FOR STUDYING AKKADIAN Akkadian was the lingua franca of the ancient Near East for thousands of years. It exploded in popularity after Sargon the Great’s conquests c. 2300 BCE, and it stayed the most important language for diplomacy,…
Resources for Learning Sumerian
ESSENTIAL RESOURCES FOR STUDYING SUMERIAN While Sumerian is the oldest recorded language, our knowledge of it is relatively recent. In deciphering Akkadian, scholars had suspected that cuneiform, the system used to write Akkadian, originated elsewhere, proof of that only came…
Greek Alphabet Unicode Table
Greek Alphabet
Timeline of Greek Literature
c. 1050–950 BCE Ionians begin colonizing Asia Minor. c. 1000 Monumental buildings are erected at Lefkandi. 850–750 Attic Middle Geometric pottery period. c. 800 Al-Mina is founded by Greek traders. 776 Traditional date for the founding of the first Olympic…
Timeline of Latin Literature
1000s BCE Italic tribe called the Latini settled Latium, the region surrounding Rome and toward its south. 753 Traditional date of the founding of Rome by Romulus and his twin, Remus. 509 Traditional date of the overthrow of Tarquinius Superbus, the last…