Category: Civilization

*not much surviving info* Scarce dates were taken from Jacques Sesiano, Lecturer at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Author of Books IV to VII of Diophantus’ Arithmetica: In the Arabic Translation…

Composite image of all sides of a 12mm (½”) Roman dice, found in Leicestershire, England   3100 BC. Bone dice from Skara Brae. Before 3000 BC. A two-sided die was used to play Senet in Egypt.…

C. 460 – 455 BC. He was born in Halimous, Athens (modern Alimos). 431 BC. He began to write “the History” at the onset of the Peloponnesian war. 424 BC. Because of his influence in…

c. 4 BC. Was born in Cordoba in Hispania. c. 20 AD. Appears to have been struck down with tuberculosis. 31 AD. Returned to Rome with his aunt, his uncle dying en route in…