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In history class we all learn about "ancient civilizations", like Greece, Persia, Babylon, and Rome. Recorded history, however, starts several thousand years prior to Greece or Rome, for example, being around. So, what did they know about the past? Did ancient civilizations have any ancient civilizations of their own?
Sources:
A History of the Ancient Near East, Marc Van De Mieroop
A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75, Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon, Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Babylonian Archaeologists of the(ir) Mesopotamian Past, I. J. Winter
In history class we all learn about "ancient civilizations", like Greece, Persia, Babylon, and Rome. Recorded history, however, starts several thousand years prior to Greece or Rome, for example, being around. So, what did they know about the past? Did ancient civilizations have any ancient civilizations of their own?
Sources:
A History of the Ancient Near East, Marc Van De Mieroop
A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75, Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon, Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Babylonian Archaeologists of the(ir) Mesopotamian Past, I. J. Winter
