Category:Ancient Near East
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This category contains only other categories, no dictionary entries. Its subcategories are on the topic: Ancient Near East. They are of two sorts:
- Subcategories named like "aa:Ancient Near East" (with a prefixed language code) are categories of terms in specific languages; for example "fr:Ancient Near East" is the Ancient Near East-related category of French terms. You may be interested especially in en:Ancient Near East, for English terms. To browse by language name instead of language code, see the "By language" table, below.
- Subcategories of this one named without the prefixed language code are further categories just like this one, but devoted to topics finer than Ancient Near East.[edit description][edit parents]
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The ancient Near East refers to early civilizations in Mesopotamia, Persia, Anatolia, the Levant, as well as ancient Egypt (see Category:Ancient Egypt), from the dawn of writing ca. 3500 BC to the Greek conquest of Alexander the Great in 330 BC.
See also Category:Languages of the ancient Near East
Subcategories
This category has the following 27 subcategories, out of 27 total.
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