“Oracle Bone Inscriptions”, the world’s oldest writing system that has not disappeared in history

“Jiaguwen,” or the oracle bone inscriptions, are thought to be the earliest fully-developed characters as well as the source of the Chinese characters people use today. They were first discovered in 1899 at the Yin Ruins in  Anyang, central China’s Henan province. They were so named because of their enigmatic “scratches” on pieces of animal bones…

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The World’s oldest and first swords ever discovered

The 5,000-year-old swords found 43 years ago during the excavations in the old mud-brick palace structure in  Malatya Arslantepe Mound are the oldest swords in the world. Many archaeologists believed that the earliest swords only dated to around 1600 or 1500 BCE before the discovery of a cache of swords at the archaeological site of  Arslantepe in Turkey. The nine…

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Ancient Greeks Built a Road to Haul Cargo Overland: The Father of the Railway: Diolkos

The  Diolkos, an ambitious road that crossed the entire  Isthmus of Corinth Corinth and was partially paved with stone, was built by the ancient Greeks as early as 600 B.C. At that time, ships traveling between the Ionian and the Aegean had to circumnavigate the Peloponnese, an often dangerous and stormy route of roughly 212 miles (340 km). The solution was…

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