Discovering the Ancient World

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The Story of Creation -- Norse Myth

The Story of Creation -- Greek Myth

Hurakan and Gucumatz -- The Story of Creation from Central America

Ra and Sekhmet -- The Story of Creation from Egypt

The Flood by Ovid -- Roman

The Yellow Emperor and the Great Flood -- China

Manu and the Fish -- India

The Story of the Flood from the Epic of Gilgamesh

Deucalion’s Flood -- Greek Flood Myth

The Coming of Evil

Summary of Part 1 from the Epic of Gilgamesh

Part 2 -- The Forest Journey from the Epic of Gilgamesh

Part 3 -- Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the Death of Enkidu

Part 4 -- The Search for Everlasting Life

Hieroglyphic alphabet chart

Egyptian poetry

The Story of Sinuhe -- Egyptian short story

The Tale of the Doomed Prince

Theseus and the Minotaur -- Greek Myth

Daedalus and Icarus -- Greek Myth

The Golden Reed Pipe -- Yao Folktale

The Vulnerable Spot -- Yi Folktale

The Legend of Silk

Aryan Hymns from the Rig Veda

A Prayer to the Gods of Night -- Old Babylonian poem

Selections from the Code of Hammurabi

List of Characters for the Iliad

Book 1 -- Quarrel, Oath, and Promise of the Iliad by Homer

Book 2 -- Assembly and Muster of Armies

Book 16 -- A Ship Fired, A Tide Turned

Book 24 -- A Grace Given in Sorrow

Book 9 of the Odyssey by Homer

Writing with Pictures

Scythian Origin Myth & Account of the Scyths by Herodotus