The Discovery of Gilgamesh's Tomb - The History Files
WEBThe Discovery of Gilgamesh's Tomb. Archaeologists in Iraq in 2003 were reportedly of the belief that they may have discovered the lost tomb of Gilgamesh, ruler of the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk and the subject of the oldest recorded story in history. That story, The Epic Of Gilgamesh, was recorded on Sumerian clay tablets in the third ...
Full Text of the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320 - The History Files
WEBFull Text of the Declaration of Arbroath, 1320. Translation from the Latin as published in The Scotsman, 4 February 2005. King Robert I: 'But from these countless evils we have been set free... by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert'. To the most Holy Father and Lord in Christ, the Lord John, by divine providence Supreme ...
A Brief History of India: Aryans - The History Files
WEBJan 29, 2011 · Governmental matters were discussed by an administrative body called the samiti in an assembly called the sabha.Amongst the royal officials were the purohita (the high priest), the senani (army general), the amatya (chief minister), and the gramani (head of the village). Then there were the doot (envoys), and spas (spies). Later, several other departmental posts came in existence including the ...
A History of Indo-Europeans, Migrations and Language - The …
WEBOct 17, 2015 · A History of Indo-Europeans, Migrations and Language. by Edward Dawson, 17 October 2015. Updated 15 March 2020. Those peoples who are now known as Indo-Europeans (IEs) were the most widely ranging ethnic group in ancient times. Due to their existence on the steppes as cattle and horse raising people, they were quite mobile - a characteristic ...
Kingdoms of Central Europe - Bohemia & Moravia - The History Files
WEBThe Great Moravian Kingdom (or empire) was established along the River Morava by the Slavic leader Mojmír. Mojmír's successors expanded it to include Bohemia (today's western Czechia), plus today's Slovakia, the southern Poles and western Pannonia (the later kingdom of Hungary.The kingdom found itself at the crossroads between the Germanic people in the west and Byzantium in the east.
Kingdoms of British Celts - Brigantes - The History Files
WEBThe Brigantes name is a relatively simple one to break down. The Gallo-Brythonic word 'briga' supplies the base, meaning 'hill, high'. In branches of the language which descended from P-Celtic this became 'bryn' in Welsh, and 'bre' in Cornish, Breton, and Cumbric. In Q-Celtic Gaelic it became 'beinn'.
Kingdoms of the Germanic Tribes - Suevi (Suebi) - The History Files
WEBThe Germanic tribes seem to have originated in a homeland in southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, with the Jutland area of northern Denmark, along with a very narrow strip of Baltic coastline).They had been settled here for over two thousand years following the Indo-European migrations. The Germanic ethnic group began as a division of the western edge of late proto-Indo-European dialects ...
The Coronation of Shivaji - The History Files
WEBThe coronation of Shivaji Maharaj was a watershed event in the history of Maharashtra. After a long hiatus during which foreigners had ruled, Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj had managed to carve out a Hindu kingdom in an Islamic India. Those were troubled times. The foreign rulers had always displayed religious arrogance towards their Hindu subjects.
Waterloo Order of Battle - Allies - The History Files
WEBApr 1, 1999 · 1st Flank Btn (European Cos of 19th-24th Btns East India Rgmts) (1) (Lt-Col W Schenck) Brigade Artillery. Dutch Foot Battery: 6 x 6-pdrs, 2 x 5.5" howitzer. Corps Cavalry (Attached to the cavalry reserve at Waterloo) 1st Hanovarian Cavalry Brigade: Colonel Baron Estorff (1,747)
Early Independent Britain AD 400-425 - The History Files
WEBApr 1, 1999 · Post-Roman Britain Early Independent Britain AD 400-425 by Peter Kessler, 1 April 1999. Updated 16 February 2019: The well-known date of Britain's final official break from Rome is AD 410, but by that stage Roman Britannia had mostly been fighting its own battles for at least thirty years with only occasional support from Rome itself.