Cylinder Seals were impression stamps used by the people of ancient Mesopotamia. #History #Writing #CylinderSeal #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-14189-en/

The Jameson Raid was an unofficial and failed attempt by the British to take over the Boer Republic of Transvaal in Southern Africa in December 1895. #History #JamesonRaid #Boers #BritishEmpire #CecilRhodes #SouthAfrica #Transvaal #TransvaalRepublic #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-26323-en/

The Marduk Prophecy is an Assyrian document dating to between 713 and 612 BCE found in a building known as The House of the Exorcist, adjacent to a temple in the city of Ashur. #History #Mesopotamia #Marduk #Hittite #Esarhaddon #Babylon #Ashur #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-990-en/

Edmund I ruled the Kingdom of the English from 939 to 946. #History #Vikings #EdmundI #Aethelstan #England #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-26318-en/

Eurydice I (circa 410 to before 343 BCE) is the earliest queen in the history of ancient Macedonia, whose impact on the political affairs of her time is known to us. #History #Macedon #HerakleiaLynkestis #HellenisticPeriod #Greece #EurydiceI #AlexanderTheGreat #AmyntasIII #HouseOfArgead #Lynkestis #Macedonia #Pella #Vergina #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-26272-en/

The discovery of gold at Witwatersrand in Transvaal in 1886, coupled with that of diamonds at Kimberley in 1867, transformed the entire region of Southern Africa. #History #Gold #Anglo-BoerWar #Boers #BritishEmpire #GoldMine #JamesonRaid #Rand #SouthAfrica #Transvaal #Witwatersrand #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2927-en/

The Code of Hammurabi was a set of 282 laws inscribed in stone by the Babylonian king Hammurabi (reign 1792-1750 BCE), who conquered and then ruled ancient Mesopotamia. #History #Mesopotamia #Hammurabi #CodeOfHammurabi #Babylon #BabylonianEmpire #BabylonianSociety #CodeOfLaws #Law #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-19882-en/

The discovery of diamonds in 1867 in Griqualand ultimately transformed the entire region of Southern Africa. #History #BritishEmpire #CecilRhodes #DeBeers #DiamondMines #Diamonds #Griqualand #Kimberley #SouthAfrica #Transvaal #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2926-en/

Caesarea Maritima was a bustling trading hub of the Eastern Mediterranean. #History #RomanEmpire #HerodTheGreat #CaesareaMaritima #Architecture #Herod'sHarbor #Israel #MediterraneanSea #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/9-322-en/

Margaret Thatcher served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 4 November 1979 to 28 November 1990. #History #MargaretThatcher #FalklandsWar #GreatBritain #Monetarism #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-26202-en/