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It says in both the 2nd and 3rd milleniums that the first Chinese sighting of a comet was in those milleniums. Can anyone confirm which millenium it really was?

And how was it possible for the Chinese to see a comet when China did not yet exist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.252.73.196 (talk) 19:00, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

To whoever changed all occurrences of "BC" to "BCE"

Are you aware of how many articles need to be changed? Do you have a plan? A [developer] could write a bot that could do change all of the terms automatically. Since they haven't done that, they may have a reason. - Brunnock 22:16, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Too poetic?

Does anybody else think this article is far too poetic?68.14.84.43 20:33, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As long as it's both poetic and cogent I think it's fine. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 20:54, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't think so --Antariki Vandanamu 18:46, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the article is far too poetic, and so belies the factual nature of the entry. have tidied this up a bit. Tescoid (talk) 10:33, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the NPOV dispute?

The page refers to a NPOV dispute and directs to the talk page. But where is the NPOV dispute here?--Antariki Vandanamu 18:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was just wondering about the same thing; given that nobody has seen fit to answer your question or otherwise provide an explanation here (which should be standard when an article or section is tagged as being disputed), I'll remove the tag. -- Schneelocke 12:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fall of Troy?

To the best of my knowledge, the existence of Troy is disuputed. It was part of a story involving gods and monsters, and there is only limited evidence that it ever even existed, let alone "fell" on a specific date. 99.246.109.131 (talk) 21:19, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where is first Korean civilization?

Dangun founded state of Gojoseon in 2333BC, both recorded by Chinese & Korean texts. And with archaeological discoveries including Bronze daggers/arrow/spear tips and ancient Korean Dolmens are evidence of Gojoseon. I think this is worth to mention at the article.Korsentry 05:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by KoreanSentry (talk • contribs)

Stars in Cave Paintings

Mention of the Lascaux cave painting in which the Pleiades star group appears would be appropriate for around 1,700 B.C. See url http://www.mazzaroth.com/ChapterOne/LascauxCave.htm SyntheticET (talk) 18:52, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

you missed a zero there, the Lascaux paintings date to about 17,000 BC, not 1,700 BC. --dab (𒁳) 13:39, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Assyria

Just wondering why there is no mention of Assyria on this page, even in the list of civilizations? Joaquimds (talk) 14:51, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Indo-European Invaders

This article has a passage where it talks about the "Indo-European Invaders" emerging from Central Asia, riding two-wheeled chariots. With no citation markers anywhere in that passage. Firstly, at this stage, the Yamnaya culture has been broken apart for ~600 years, so it's a bit reductionist to just call every different IE group at this time essentially the same. Additionally, each culture would've had different relations to any other culture, and we can't really asses the exact amount of violence between any two prehistoric cultures - my point being that calling them "invaders" completely removes the complexity of alliances and rivalry between different tribes and groups in prehistory. And then there's the bloody chariots. If you want to reference the Indo-Iranian chariots that's all good, but you cannot say that Indo-Europeans invented the chariots - not because it's not technically true, but because it paints an image of it being a "common IE invention". It isn't. Chariots were first made by specifically the Sintashta cities, before being brought to the Near East and Europe Weltwehr (talk) 16:30, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]