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A Trip Back in Time: Ancient History

This is how Philip Hitti puts human's existence in perspective:

"The duration of the historic period of mankind, 5000 years, is but a small fraction of the prehistoric period. If we could compress man's age on earth into one single day of 12 hours, this literary period would begin at about 11:53 PM, the Crusades would have been fought about 1 minute 44 seconds ago, and America discovered about 55 seconds ago. But man's existence is in turn out of all proportion to the history of the earth itself. If the earth's age could be compressed into one single year, the first eight months would be completely devoid of life; mamals would not make their appearance until the second week of December; man would make his debut on December 31 at 11:45 PM, writing would have been invented less than a minute ago, Christ would have been born 22 seconds ago, and America discovered six seconds ago."

From The Near East in History by Philip Hitti, published by D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.

Being an internet junkie and a nerd, I ve ended up compiling a rather big list of links related to the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamian histories. So, I did the obvious thing: continue compiling on a homepage. I hope you will find the links informative as well as entertaining. Please email me if you know of any related links. Many thanks.

Mesopotamia

Egypt

Ancient Syria