Blogging Will Durant’s History of CivilizationOutside of the main civilizations of the ancient history of the Middle East, Egypt,
Assyria
Blogging Will Durant’s History of CivilizationAssyria did a lot of cool things. It conquered Babylon, Judea, and Egypt. It left advancements in the
Babylonia
Blogging Will Durant’s History of CivilizationNo one looking at the site of ancient Babylon today would suspect that these hot and dreary wastes along
Egypt
Blogging Will Durant’s History of CivilizationYou know Egypt is going to get lengthy treatment (80 pages). He begins with a travelogue of a voyage up
Sumeria
Blogging Will Durant’s History of CivilizationWritten history is at least six thousand years old. During half this period the center of human
Prehistoric Beginnings
Blogging Will Durant’s History of CivilizationImmense volumes have been written to expound our knowledge, and conceal our ignorance of primitive
Durant's "Our Oriental Heritage"
This is the first volume of a multi-volume series intended to cover the history of the world. After 40 years, the author got to the Age of Napoleon