Earliest Quote by Christopher Lascelles

“It is held by many writers that the First Dynasty of Babylon was of Arab origin.”

— Leonard William King

There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose…

— James Henry Breasted

“Sumerian scribes invented the practice of writing in cuneiform on clay tablets sometime around 3400 B.C. in the Uruk/Warka region in the south of…

— John A. Halloran

“What we will see time and again is the way preexisting concepts and institutions in ancient Near Eastern culture are reworked according to a…

— Joshua A. Berman

“Isolationists believed that the ancient civilizations all developed independent of one another. Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, Egypt—all crossed a threshold into civilization about…

— Robert Doherty

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am…

— Henry David Thoreau

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among…

— Tom Chatfield

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

“If history, as by most definitions, begins with writing, then the birth, rise and fall of ancient Mesopotamia occupies a full half of all…

— Paul Kriwaczek

“They also explain many common points in the archaeological finds of these civilizations as due to man’s genetic commonality. Thus”

— Robert Doherty

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early…

— James Henry Breasted

“In 2800 BC, an Assyrian stone tablet lamented that “our earth is degenerate in these latter days . . . children no longer obey their parents.”

— Bradley R.E. Wright