The first libraries appeared
Time: 4th Millenium BC
Place: Southwest Asia's Fertile Crescent (Present Day from Iraq to Egypt)
Details: The first libraries appeared five thousand years ago in Southwest Asia's Fertile Crescent, an area that ran from Mesopotamia to the Nile in Africa. Known as the cradle of civilization, the Fertile Crescent was the birthplace of writing, sometime before 3000 BC.
‹ Earlier in historyAmrit was Aramean city31st Century BCLater in history ›Rus'–Byzantine War (941)941
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