The oldest catalogues of stars and constellations are from Old Babylonian astronomy, beginning in the Middle Bronze Age.

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia from the European Neolithic Period, to as late as the 17th / early 18th century although in Scotland, convincing evidence for Early and Middle Bronze Age or Norse Period use is not currently present in the archaeological record.

He did not include this transitional period in the tripartite system of Early, Middle and Late Bronze Age but placed it at the beginning outside of it.

The Copper Age in the Middle East and the Caucasus began in the late 5th millennium BC and lasted for about a millennium before it gave rise to the Early Bronze Age.

The civilisation that had developed there since the end of the Bronze Age was organised along entirely different lines than those of the Middle East, consisting of numerous small City-States fielding citizen militias.

By the Middle Bronze Age, increasing numbers of smelted iron objects ( distinguishable from meteoric iron by the lack of nickel in the product ) appeared in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

Archaeological evidence indicates that in the latter half of the Middle Bronze Age ( circa 1700 BCE ) the city enjoyed some prosperity, its walls having been strengthened and expanded.

* 1958 " Some Notes on the Early and Middle Bronze Age Strata of Megiddo ", Eretz Israel 5 ( 1958 ), pp. 51 – 60.

* 1969 " Middle and Late Bronze Age Strata at Megiddo ", Levant 1 ( 1969 ), pp. 25 – 60.

), Tell el Ajjul-the Middle Bronze Age Remains, 2.

It is also widely held by scholars that the island was not occupied by humans during the Middle Bronze Age ( 2300 – 1600 ), though researchers have recently suggested that the lack of evidence from this period may only demonstrate the lack of excavations on Chios and the northern Aegean.

* Perperikon in Bulgaria-The megalith complex had been laid in ruins and re-erected many times in history-from the Bronze Age till Middle Ages.

Such devices have been in use since at least the Middle Bronze Age ( shown is a balance for weighing tobacco dating from the mid-19th century ).

* Middle Bronze Age

The most notable architectural remains from early Mesopotamia are the temple complexes at Uruk from the 4th millennium BC, temples and palaces from the Early Dynastic period sites in the Diyala River valley such as Khafajah and Tell Asmar, the Third Dynasty of Ur remains at Nippur ( Sanctuary of Enlil ) and Ur ( Sanctuary of Nanna ), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Bogazkoy ( Hattusha ), Ugarit, Ashur and Nuzi, Iron Age palaces and temples at Assyrian ( Kalhu / Nimrud, Khorsabad, Nineveh ), Babylonian ( Babylon ), Urartian ( Tushpa / Van Kalesi, Cavustepe, Ayanis, Armavir, Erebuni, Bastam ) and Neo-Hittite sites ( Karkamis, Tell Halaf, Karatepe ).

Bagatti uncovered pottery dating from the Middle Bronze Age ( 2200 to 1500 BC ) and ceramics, silos and grinding mills from the Iron Age ( 1500 to 586 BC ) which indicated substantial settlement in the Nazareth basin at that time.

* Middle Bronze Age alphabets

The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age.

The 3rd millennium BC spans the Early to Middle Bronze Age.

It has also been recently suggested that the rapid climatic collapse, marking the Akkadian Dark Age, may have been responsible for the religiously prescribed prohibition against the raising and consumption of pigs that spread through the Ancient Middle East from the end of the third millennium BC.

Probably the most recognised style of armour in the World became the plate armour associated with the knights of the European Late Middle Ages, but continuing to the early 17th century Age of Enlightenment in all European countries.

The buildings in the old city originate, on the whole, from building projects during the 16th century, when nearly all the Middle Age period buildings were replaced or expanded.

Alexander is known for reflecting the works of several other Middle Age thinkers, especially those of Saint Anselm, and Saint Augustine.

These have been dated to about 77, 000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age.

The use of mail as battlefield armour was common during the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, becoming less common over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.

The literature of European archaeology, in general, avoids the use of ' chalcolithic ' ( the term ' Copper Age ' is preferred ), whereas Middle Eastern archaeologists regularly use it.

The rational view was recovered during the high Middle Ages, separated from theology during the Renaissance and found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment.

The concept of representative democracy arose largely from ideas and institutions that developed during the European Middle Ages, the Age of Enlightenment, and the American and French Revolutions.

Only in foreign words Galician may use of another diacritics as ç ( widely used in the Middle Age ) ê or à.

This division — as much cultural as geographical — was used until the Late Middle Ages, when it was challenged by the Age of Discovery.

* Lingua Franca or Sabir, the original of the name, a Romance-based pidgin language of mixed origins used by maritime commercial interests around the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages and early Modern Age.

The Paleolithic is subdivided into the Lower Paleolithic ( Early Stone Age, ending around 350, 000 – 300, 000 years ago ), the Middle Paleolithic ( Middle Stone Age, until 50, 000 – 30, 000 years ago ), and the Upper Paleolithic.

The Common Kestrel's closest living relative is apparently the Nankeen or Australian Kestrel ( F. cenchroides ), which probably derived from ancestral Common Kestrels settling in Australia and adapting to local conditions less than one million years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene.

The explosive devices, which triggered security alerts in the US, UK, and Middle East, were apparently both inserted in printer cartridges and placed in packages addressed to synagogues in the Chicago area.

In the Middle Ages Phaedrus exercised a considerable influence through the prose and verse versions of his fables, which were current, even though his own works ( and even his name ) were apparently forgotten.

The all-male Essenes, who lived in the Middle East from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD apparently shunned sex, marriage, and slavery.

The ordeal of the cross was apparently introduced in the Early Middle Ages by the church in an attempt to discourage judicial duels among the Germanic peoples.

Sobekneferu ruled no more than four years, and as she apparently had no heirs, when she died the Twelfth Dynasty came to a sudden end as did the Golden Age of the Middle Kingdom.

The heroes unite to stop a group of superhuman terrorists from the Middle East but then, via a government device, apparently all lose their abilities.

Popes were apparently the first to assume official ordinals for their reigns, although this occurred only in last centuries of the Middle Ages.

However it is also attested in Middle English as eclog, and this form was apparently taken directly from Latin ecloga, which itself came into Latin from the Greek eklogē (), meaning " choice, military draft, political election, harvest, reckoning of accounts, literary product ".

• The name Siskin is derived from an adaptation of the German dialect words sisschen, zeischen, which are diminutive forms of Middle High German ( zîsec ) and Middle Low German ( ziseke, sisek ) words, which are themselves apparently of Slavic origin.

They are apparently closely related to the bullfinches ( Marten & Johnson, 1986 ) and to the Pine Grosbeak ( Arnaiz-Villena et al., 2001 ), diverging from them almost twelve million years ago, at the end of the Middle Miocene.

The protagonist is Robot Jones, a short automaton who lives in a small city in Delaware during the early 1980s apparently — the animation style, clothing, and soundtrack all seem to indicate that decade ; Robot attempts to learn of human nature by attending Polyneux Middle School, where he meets three new friends: Socks ( Kyle Sullivan ), a taller boy with curly blonde hair ; Mitch ( Gary Leroi Gray ), a headphones-wearing boy whose eyes are hidden by his long hair ; and Cubey ( Myles Jeffrey ), a shorter boy with spiked black hair who wears big, square sunglasses and a Pac-Man T-shirt.

The down-sizing of the Navy after the end of the Napoleonic Wars made promotion prospects poor, and Cochrane switched to a career as a barrister, apparently joining the Middle Temple without first attending a university.

This apparently inconvenient design element may have arisen out of a safety concern, since it served to separate Middle School experiments from those undertaken by sixth formers.

The words apparently crept into the Latin text of the New Testament during the Early Middle Ages, " as one of those medieval glosses but were then written into the text itself by a careless copyist.

In North America, Orlando Gardiner and his friend Sam Fredericks, famous contestants in the Middle Country, a Medieval fantasy gameworld, go on an apparently routine quest, where Orlando finds his own image of the golden city.

Musicologist Gustave Reese said that the second group, called mensuralists, " have an impressive amount of historical evidence on their side ," ( Music in the Middle Ages, p. 146 ), but the equal-note Solesmes interpretation has permeated the musical world, apparently due to its ease of learning and resonance with modern musical taste.

However it was reported that following the player stalling on taking a medical on Thursday 29th, in the early hours of Friday 30 August, Asprilla caught a flight from Newcastle Airport to the Middle East, to apparently take up a more lucrative offer.

By the time of the initial SWC meeting ( Versailles 1 December 1917 ) Allenby ’ s successes, culminating in the Fall of Jerusalem ( 9 December 1917 ), demonstrated the potential of attacks in the Middle East, particularly compared to Haig ’ s apparently unproductive offensive at Ypres, followed by Cambrai in November ( initial success followed by retaking of gains ).

It was apparently not formed until the Middle Ages, as it is not mentioned by ancient writers ; it was drained in 1870.

In the Middle Ages, most of Cookham was owned by Cirencester Abbey and the timber-framed ' Churchgate House ' was apparently the Abbot's residence when in town.

An inn called The Talbot in Iwerne Minster, Dorset, UK, shows as its sign a black dog, apparently the crest of the Bower family, who owned the manor from the late Middle Ages till 1876.

The Romans developed many technologies which were apparently lost in the Middle Ages, and were only fully reinvented in the 19th and 20th centuries.