Rise Of Civilization: Ancient Babylon
Babylonia The settlement which would become Babylon – referred to as Babbar at the time, was intitially a minor city from the Early Dynastic…
Ancient Civilizations
Rise Of Civilization: Ancient Sumer
Ancient Sumer Following the movement of people into more fixed settlements during the Ubaid Period, the first Cities emerged in Sumer with some of…
The Mysterious Nubian Meroitic Script Of Kush
Apart from its connections to Ancient Egypt, the Kingdom of Kush was actually independent and deserves recognition in its own right. The origins of…
The Goals Of Cleopatra Egypt’s Last Pharaoh
Cleopatra the Last Pharaoh of Egypt had important goals she wanted to achieve for Egypt. In 956 AD, the Scholar Al Masudi described Egypt’s…
The Treaty Of Kadesh
The Treaty of Kadesh is regarded as the world’s first recorded Peace Treaty. It recorded the Peace between the Egyptians and Hittites following the…
African Societies Before The Slave Trade And Colonization
African Societies Before The Slave Trade And Colonization African Societies before the Slave Trade and Colonization were characterised by Iron Age Kingdoms forming centralised…
The History Of Africa Before Colonisation
The History of Africa before Colonisation consisted of a number of African Kingdoms and Peoples which had inhabited the African Continent for at least…
The Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is a Stele found at Memphis in Egypt in 1799. It records 3 Proclamations of the Pharaohs of the Greek Dynasty…
The Monomotapa Kingdom
In this African History entry we explore the History of the African Kingdom Of Monomotapa. In the late 1400s, Great Zimbabwe began to decline…