Ancient History Archive
Indo-Aryan Peoples
The Indo-Aryan People, also known as the Indic People are a diverse ethnolinguistic group native in modern and ancient times to the Indian subcontinent and South Asia. However, the Indo-Aryan people are not native entirely native to the land of […]
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The Ancient Egyptian Creation Story
The Ancient Egyptian creation story is one of the oldest known to us, predating the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible codified maybe c.650 BCE) by more than two thousand years. There are certain similarities – though important distinctions also – between the […]
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The Celtic Creation Myth
We know precious little about the religious and mythological doctrines of the ancient Celtic peoples. From the beginning the Celts have been mysterious, hidden half-seen in the mists of oblivion that surround them, heroic, proud, mighty, and frightening figures when […]
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Cuneiform — The Most Powerful Script Ever Devised
The unique glyphs that comprise the cuneiform writing style were developed in a fashion that was heavily influenced by the writing material. We established in Proto-Cuneiform :: The First Phase of Writing that the cuneiform script began as picture-symbols scratched into […]
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Bullae — Archaic Accounting System of the Near East
There is a large quantity of convincing evidence that writing was invented by priest-officials in their role of organizing and running ancient cities, at least in the Near East. They gathered together the harvests and other goods, distributing some to […]
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The Invention of Cuneiform Writing In Mesopotamia
The invention of writing is one of the greatest revolutions to have occurred in all of human history. This statement is in no way superlative, because it was literally with the invention of cuneiform writing that we mark the earliest […]
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The Invention of Proto-Cuneiform in the Uruk Period
Early nomadic hunter-gatherers had no use for writing. Yet as humans transitioned into an increasingly sedentary agricultural lifestyle, we saw how bullae appear to have evolved as an early accounting tool alongside the development of concepts like trade and ownership. […]
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