Explore Libradia
Explore published stories in historical order. Dates may be approximate; overlapping periods appear together.
c. 13,000–3,000 BCE
Before the great cities of Mesopotamia, communities were finding ways to stay, store food and share space. The evidence reveals a varied path to settled life.
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c. 4,000–3,000 BCE
Look beyond Mesopotamia to communities along the Nile and across other regions, separating contemporary developments from famous monuments built later.
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c. 3,500–2,700 BCE
Explore early Uruk through its buildings, waterways and clay tablets. Discover how archaeology helps explain life in one of Mesopotamia’s earliest cities.
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c. 3,500–2,004 BCE
Discover Sumer through its cities, temples and trade. Explore how early urban communities in southern Mesopotamia organised food, authority and wealth.
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c. 3,500–2,000 BCE
Follow food from irrigated fields to containers and clay accounts, and discover what the evidence can tell us about supplying early Mesopotamian cities.
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c. 3,350–2,029 BCE
How did early accounts become written language? Explore Mesopotamian clay tablets, cylinder seals and the gradual development of cuneiform writing.
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c. 2,900–1,800 BCE
Discover how weighed silver, crafted goods and written obligations shaped Mesopotamian exchange long before coinage.
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c. 2,600–2,000 BCE
Explore homes, food preparation, craft work and family relationships through specific finds and records from early Mesopotamian cities.
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c. 2,600–2,500 BCE
Follow workers’ settlements, food supplies and administrative traces to understand the people and organisation behind the pyramids at Giza.
c. 1,792–1,750 BCE
Explore responsibility, social status and royal authority through Hammurabi’s laws—and distinguish legal provisions from records of actual trials.
c. 334–330 BCE
Look beyond individual genius to the army, supplies, battlefield decisions and political arrangements behind Alexander’s conquest.
c. 44 BCE
Explore Caesar’s concentration of power, the senators who turned against him and why his assassination failed to restore stable republican government.
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