Ancient World
Pyramids of Meroë: The Royal Cemetery of Kush in Sudan
Meroë became the royal burial ground of the Kingdom of Kush for some six centuries, leaving the largest group of pyramids in Africa outside Egypt.
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Every Chronicle article on world history, newest first: battles, empires, disasters, discoveries and revolutions.
Ancient World
Zhengguo Canal (246 BC): The Spy Who Watered Qin's Fields
Meant to drain Qin's resources, the canal irrigated a large area of saline land and strengthened Qin's economy on the eve of unification.
Ancient World
Chandragupta Maurya and the Founding of the Maurya Empire
Chandragupta overthrew the Nanda dynasty and built an empire stretching from Afghanistan to Bengal.
Ancient World
Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC): Hasdrubal's Defeat in Italy
Decisive Roman victory; Hasdrubal was killed and his army destroyed, leaving Hannibal isolated in southern Italy.
Ancient World
Paestum (c. 550 BC): The Greek Temples of Poseidonia in Italy
Three monumental Doric temples survive almost intact, making Paestum one of the most important sites for understanding Greek architecture.
Ancient World
Ahmose I and the Expulsion of the Hyksos (c. 1550 BC)
The Hyksos capital Avaris fell, Egypt was reunited under Theban rule and the Eighteenth Dynasty began the New Kingdom.
Ancient World
Enuma Elish: The Babylonian Creation Epic of Marduk and Tiamat
The epic exalted Marduk as king of the gods and Babylon as the centre of the world, and it was recited at the Babylonian New Year festival.
Prehistory
Sannai-Maruyama: Large Jōmon Settlement in Northern Japan
The site changed views of the Jōmon as small mobile bands and became part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2021.
Prehistory
Belovode: The Earliest Securely Dated Copper Smelting
Copper slag dated to about 5000 BC showed that Vinča culture communities were extracting metal from ore, among the earliest secure cases anywhere.
Prehistory
Venus of Brassempouy: The Ice Age Lady with the Hood
Found in 1894, the ivory head became one of the most famous works of Palaeolithic art and an early example of a realistic human face.
Prehistory
Xiahe Mandible: A Denisovan Jaw from the Tibetan Plateau
Ancient proteins identified the jaw as Denisovan, showing that these archaic humans lived on the high Tibetan Plateau at least 160,000 years ago.
Prehistory
Tyrannosaurus rex Discovery: Barnum Brown and the 1902 Find
Brown's partial skeleton became the type specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex, named by Osborn in 1905, and later finds made it the world's most famous dinosaur.