Ancient World
Founding of Rome (753 BC): Romulus, Remus and the Evidence
According to legend Romulus founded Rome on the Palatine; archaeology shows villages on Rome's hills merging into a city over the 10th to 6th centuries BC.
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Palace of Knossos (c. 1900 BC): The Minoan Labyrinth of Crete
The largest Minoan palace, centre of Bronze Age Crete for some five centuries, later an administrative seat of Mycenaean Greeks and the source of the Labyrinth legend.
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Narmer and the Unification of Egypt (c. 3100 BC)
Upper and Lower Egypt were ruled as a single kingdom, and Narmer is usually counted as the first king of the First Dynasty.
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Invention of Cuneiform: How Sumer Created the First Writing
Bookkeeping signs on clay developed into cuneiform, a script used for about 3,000 years to write more than a dozen languages of the ancient Near East.