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Tracking the Centuries
ОглавлениеAbout 4000 BC: Egyptians begin burying their dead with ritual care.
About 3300 BC: A well-equipped male traveler in the Italian Alps succumbs to an arrow wound and falls face-down into the snow.
About 1600 BC: The volcano on the island of Santorini erupts, destroying the island, wiping out villages, and probably ending a civilization.
1352 BC: Tutankhamen, young king of Egypt, dies and is mummified.
About 1250 BC: A confederation of Greek kings and warriors attacks the city of Troy, in today’s Turkey.
Ninth century BC: The bard Homer sings about the Trojan War.
Early fourth century BC: In Athens, the philosopher Plato writes about Atlantis, a land lost under the sea.
1870s: Heinrich Schliemann, a German commodities broker and amateur archaeologist, finds Homer’s Troy.
1922: British archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamen’s perfectly preserved tomb.
1991: Hikers in the Italian Alps discover the 5,300-year-old mummy of a well-outfitted traveler. Researchers nickname him Ötzi.
