Though the exact date and location of the world’s first formal educational institution are likely lost to time, the first schools likely popped up in several places in the 2nd, 3rd, and perhaps 4th Millennia B.C.E., including Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and China.
Several archaeological sites have been discovered in Beirut, revealing flint tools of sequential periods dating from the Middle Palaeolithic and Upper Paleolithic through the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
The Pama–Nyungan languages are now the most widespread family of Australian Aboriginal languages, containing perhaps 300 languages.
Stonehenge is perhaps the world’s most famous prehistoric monument. It was built in several stages: the first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago.
These permanent designs — sometimes plain, sometimes elaborate, always personal — have served as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of religious beliefs, adornments and even forms of punishment.
For at least 5,000 years before Christopher Columbus discovered America for the Europeans, the island, which he named Hispaniola, was inhabited by indigenous peoples whom he called “Indians.”
The history of the domestication of cotton is very complex and is not known exactly. Several isolated civilizations in both the Old and New World independently domesticated and converted cotton into fabric.
A polished bone implement found at Eva in Tennessee, United States and dated to around 5000 B.C.E. has been construed as a possible sporting device used in a “ring and pin” game.
The Longshan also sometimes referred to as the Black Pottery Culture, was a late Neolithic culture in the middle and lower Yellow River valley areas of northern China from about 3000 to 1900 B.C.E.
