Behistun Rock

Trilingual carvings by  Darius I the Great.

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Dead Sea Scrolls

Qumran cave.

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Flood Tablet

Cuneiform and telling the tale.

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Gilgamesh Cylinder Seal

One of five surviving cylinder seals with this motive.

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Hammurabi's Law Code

282 Babylonian legal decisions.

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Humbaba Mask

Gilgamesh's tale and the sacred cedar forest.

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Rosetta Stone

Champollion showed how to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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Attila the Hun
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Attila short biography
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HISTORY	Russian Revolution
Two revolutions in 1917 changed Russia for good. How the Russians switched from Empire to the Bolshevik Peace, Land, and Bread government: Russian Revolution of 1905 Russian Revolution of 1917 Russian Civil War 1917-1920 Russian Revolution Timeline Grigory Y. Rasputin World War One Vladimir I. Lenin Joseph Stalin What is Communism?

 

Greco-Persian Wars
Also called the Persian Wars, the Greco-Persian Wars were fought for almost half a century from 492 to 449 BC. Greece won against enormous odds. Here is more:

Battle of Marathon
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Battle of Salamis
Battle of Plataea

HISTORY	Mexican Revolution
Check out the Timelines of the Mexican Revolution Mexico's transition from dictatorship to constitutional republic translated into ten messy years of skirmishing in Mexican history. More from the Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa Emiliano Zapata Francisco I. Madero Causes of the Mexican Revolution Women in the Mexican Revolution Summary of the Mexican Revolution