#2000 bce

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Time Travel Poll Winner Third Round Match Up 8

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for Research or for Fun, not to change anything, what would you pick? (Yes you may have a babel fish in your ear to translate for you, a companion, and spending money. You are immune to disease and damage as long as you don't interfere).

Three night performance of Beowulf in 10th Century Wessex

Whole Africa textile survey 2000 BCE

Voting ended onAug 18, 2025

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Updated 2000 BC again (finally!)

2000 B.C.E. - Fallout

An ancient Sumerian priestess-in-training and nomadic girl revolutionize the Bronze Age. On Hiatus, returns March 7th!

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Cuneiform tablets: UR’s scoop of ancient history

“We often think about skill in terms of a great painting by Michelangelo. But we don’t think about the skill it takes to create the everyday.”

By MUSKAAN VASANDANI

“About 3000 years before Jesus of Nazareth was born, the Sumerians formed their own system of characters and put them down in a defined pattern on soft clay, letting it set to perfection. These clay tablets are now referred to as cuneiform tablets, after the Sumerian system of writing.”

“In Rare Books and Special Collections at the University, there is a set of three of these artifacts, dating back to around 2000 B.C.E. The first — from the reign of Litpi Istar — is a cone-shaped tablet, an inscription that was set into a wall. It is a written ode to Istar’s accomplishments. The other two tablets are possibly records of grocery stores and other everyday things, or perhaps just notes that people wrote to each other. Interestingly, on one of these tablets, the scribe’s fingerprints remain.”

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Daughter of an exile ­– my heart rejoiced; (she) took away the laugh of (my) mother. My mood plunged into the infesting heart – her love-making is an infesting love. She is sweet as honey, She is fresh like wine to the nose.  (My) mood is (fixed on her) fruits. As life, mentioning her name is insatiable, Though she is distant, her merriment sets in motion.  [One who has] a loved-one chases (lit. sees) a dream: my heart [is broken], my mood is agitated!  [Had] Ištar schemed this affair lovers should not [ever] be found! My he[art] rejoiced! My mood became cheerful! is the truth. A guard and a curser(?). I (Text: he) awoke to the noise of swallows, writhed in (my) bedroom on the bed.  The lov[e-charm] returned into m[y hear]t!"

"My mood plunged into the infesting heart." - Akkadian love lyric dated to the second Millennium BCE - [CUSAS 10, 8, translation from SEAL project by Wasserman N. and Streck M.P.]

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Time Travel Poll: Winner Match Up 24

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for Research or for fun, not to change anything, what would you pick? (Yes you may have a babel fish in your ear to translate for you, a companion, local currency equivalent, and you will be immune to damage and disease.)

An Etruscan Funeral at the tombs at Tarquinia.

Whole Africa textile survey 2000 BCE

Voting ended onJul 17, 2025

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Time Travel Poll Winner Second Round Match Up 17

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for Research or for Fun, not to change anything, what would you pick? (Yes you may have a babel fish in your ear to translate for you, a companion, and spending money. You are immune to disease and damage as long as you don't interfere).

Original Disney 20,000 Leagues under the Sea ride

Whole Africa textile survey 2000 BCE

Voting ended onJul 26, 2025

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2000 BCE, Episode 8, the great City of Ur: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/2000-bce/the-great-city-of-ur/viewer?title_no=806618&episode_no=8

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Giri interrupting the king in the new update of 2000 BC