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    Sumer (redirect from Sumerian culture)
    Sumerians originated from Dilmun, which was theorized to be the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. In Sumerian mythology, Dilmun was also mentioned as...
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  • circular tomb dating between 2500 and 2000 B.C. An Umm Al Nar tomb forms the centrepiece of the Mleiha Archaeological Centre in Sharjah. Dilmun Burial Mounds...
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    Olmecs (redirect from Olmec culture)
    antiguos, es sin duda madre de otras culturas, como la maya, la teotihuacana, la zapoteca, la de El Tajín, y otras" ("This great culture, which we encounter in...
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    Tumulus (category CS1 Austrian German-language sources (de-at))
    The Dilmun Burial Mounds comprising necropolis areas on the main island of Bahrain dating back to the Dilmun civilization and the Umm al-Nar culture. Each...
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    As a result, Dilmun became legendary in Mesopotamian literature. The Sumerians regarded Dilmun as holy land. The Sumerians described Dilmun as a paradise...
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    people who inhabited Etruria in ancient Italy, with a common language and culture who formed a federation of city-states. After conquering adjacent lands...
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    The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it...
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    Meluhha (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Dilmun, and Meluhha. The Sumerian location of Magan is now accepted to be the area currently encompassing the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Dilmun was...
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    workshops and monumental tombs testifying to the area's affluence has been excavated. Further to the west was an area called Dilmun, which in later periods...
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    Phoenicia (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
    these traditions and suggest a migration connected with the collapse of the Dilmun civilization c. 1750 BC. However, most scholars reject the idea of a migration;...
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    Sea Peoples (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Beasley Greene. De Rougé noted that "in the crests of the conquered peoples the Sherden and the Teresh bear the designation of the peuples de la mer", in a...
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    Mediterranean cultures to develop a more sophisticated sociopolitical culture of their own. The most prominent site was Mycenae, after which the culture of this...
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  • Ship burial (category Culture of Asia)
    Coast Trail. 2023-12-03. Retrieved 2024-02-21. Boyer, R., Héros et Dieux du Nord, Flammarion (1997), 192 p. (ISBN 2080122746), "Bateaux-tombes", p. 26...
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    picks up again in the period of Dilmun in the early 3rd millennium. Known records from Uruk refer to a place called Dilmun, associated on several occasions...
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    Hallstatt culture La Tène culture Villanova culture Latial culture Este culture Golasecca culture Camunni culture Fritzens-Sanzeno culture A genetic study...
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    Arabs (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    established influential civilizations starting from 3000 BCE onwards, such as Dilmun, Gerrha, and Magan, playing a vital role in trade between Mesopotamia, and...
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    A cradle of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other civilizations in other locations. A civilization...
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    Nuragic civilization (category Archaeological cultures in Sardinia)
    The Nuragic civilization, also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age. According to the...
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  • Oguz Govurqala, Nakhchivan Qabala treasures Ain Umm Sujoor Barbar Temple Dilmun Burial Mounds Diraz Temple Khamis Mosque Qal'at al-Bahrain Riffa Fort Neolithic...
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    Ancient Egypt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    bracelets, and beads. The largest of these early cultures in upper (Southern) Egypt was the Badarian culture, which probably originated in the Western Desert;...
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    claimed in one of his inscriptions that "ships from Meluhha, Magan and Dilmun made fast at the docks of Akkad". Many archaeological finds suggest that...
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    Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    y el origen de la Cabeza Colosal de tipo etiópico que existe en Hueyapan del cantón de los Tuxtlas" in Boletín de la Sociedad Mexicana de Geografía y...
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    Religion, Walter Burkert notes the connection with the motif of far-off Dilmun: "Thus Achilles is transported to the White Isle and becomes the Ruler of...
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    undisputed. Jomon culture formed in Japan before 500 BC and under Chinese influence became the Yayoi culture which built large tombs by AD 200. In the...
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    Roman Empire (category Western culture)
    le temoignage de Grégoire de Tours atteste la survivance de la langue gauloise. Guiter, Henri (1995). "Sur le substrat gaulois dans la Romania". In Bochnakowa...
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    archaeological sites such as the Akdeniz village tomb, the neolithic settlement at Vrysi, and the Kirni Bronze Age tomb. There is also a small souvenir shop and...
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    Sogdia (category Culture of Iran)
    Turko-Mongol Neighbors: Culture, Power, and Connections, 580–800. OUP US. pp. 70–. ISBN 978-0-19-973413-9. Éric Trombert; Étienne de La Vaissière (2005). Les...
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    Greece, marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian...
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    Werner (2007). Traduction: encyclopédie internationale de la recherche sur la traduction. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1194–1195. ISBN 978-3-11-017145-7. Windfuhr...
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    Miroschedji Pierre de, "Le Dieu élamite au serpent", in : Iranica antiqua, Vol.16, 1981, Gand, Ministère de l'Éducation et de la Culture, 1989, p.13–14,...
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