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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

An interesting timeline

I found whilst doing a search last night. It goes back to 15 Billion BCE to the Present, with entries colour coded and annotated. They include scientific information, mythological texts such as the Bible, astronlogical and astronomical data, environmental issues, speculative data, etc., all mixed together but plainly delineated. There are a few errors, especially in some entries where the dates are actually BP (Before Present, used by a lot of anthropologists/archaeologists) and BCE (Before the Common Era). Dates are given in BC and AD (Before Christ and Anno Domini). Check it out at Historical Timeline. It's very ambitious, covering world events rather than focussing on just one area. It goes in quite a bit of detail at least to 700 CE, then apparently the links break down. But it's remarkable and a good start to researching something like what events were happening in the 10th century BCE or when rice was first cultivated in China, that sort of thing.

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