by Goodrich Seminar Room Team Member | Oct 11, 2025 | 1800 - 1700 BC, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Documents, Hammurabi Code, Timeline
HAMMURABI CODE (“https://cdli.earth/artifacts/464358/reader/213152”) Composed: ca. 1754 BCE Rediscovered: 1901 (excavated at Susa by Jacques de Morgan) Publicly Displayed: ca. 18th century BCE in Babylonian temples Notable Early Law Code: One of the first...
by Goodrich Seminar Room Team Member | Oct 11, 2025 | 1100 - 700 BC, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Documents, Shih Ching, Timeline
SHIH CHING (“Chinese Classic Poetry: The Shih King | Online Library of Liberty.” Photograph, 2000s. https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/chinese-classic-poetry-the-shih-king) Composed: circa 1100 BCE, Zhou Dynasty, Ancient China Notable Founder of the Classic...
by Goodrich Seminar Room Team Member | Oct 11, 2025 | 500 - 400 BC, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Authors, Thucydides, Timeline
THUCYDIDES (“Thucydides Mosaic from Jerash, Jordan, Roman, 3rd century CE at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.” Photograph of mosaic. 3rd century CE. Stone and glass tesserae. Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed October 18, 2025....
by Goodrich Seminar Room Team Member | Oct 11, 2025 | 1100 - 500 BC, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Documents, Timeline, Upanishads
UPANISHADS (“https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Brihadaranyaka_upanishad_adhyaya_1_folio_3b%2C_page_2%2C_Schoenberg_Center_manuscript%2C_Penn_Library.jpg”) Composed: circa 1200–600 BCE Notable Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Attributed...
by Goodrich Seminar Room Team Member | Oct 11, 2025 | 1100 - 900 BC, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Authors, Timeline, Zarathushtra
ZARATHUSHTRA (“Prophet Zoroaster.” Wikimedia Commons. Accessed October 18, 2025. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanzio_01_Zoroaster_Ptolmey.jpg.) Born: c. 7th–6th century BCE, likely in eastern Persia (modern-day Iran) Died: Unknown, possibly in...
by Goodrich Seminar Room Team Member | Oct 11, 2025 | 1700 - 1800 AD, 99 Heroes on the Wall, Declaration of Independence, Documents, Timeline
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration) Adopted: July 4, 1776 (Second Continental Congress, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) First Printed: July 4–5, 1776 (Dunlap broadside) First Signed: (Engrossed Parchment): August 2–19, 1776...
