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• StonehengeStonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age monument located near Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, about 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Salisbury. It is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones, known as megaliths. There is built in WiltshireWiltshire (abbreviated Wilts is a large southern English county. Considered as a ceremonial county it borders those of Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, and contains the unitary authority of Swindon. Wiltshire is a m, EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England
• The element MercuryMercury also called quicksilver is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Hg ( L. hydrargyrum and atomic number 80. A heavy, silvery, transition metal, mercury is one of only two elements that are liquid at room temperature (the othe has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade
• Settlers from CreteCrete sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Kappa;ρτ&eta / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Greek island closest to North Africa. Tourist attractions in Crete include archeological sites, Greece move to MiletusIn Greek mythology, Miletus was the founder of the city described below. He had two children: Caunus and Byblis. Miletus was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia, in the Aydin Province of Turkey, near the mouth of the Maeander Riv, Turkey
• Early traces of Maya civilizationThis article is about the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. See Maya people for a discussion of the modern Maya. The Maya are a people of southern Mexico and northern Central America with some 3,000 years of rich history. The Maya were part of the Mesoamer developing in BelizeBelize is a small nation in Central America, on the Caribbean Sea bordering Mexico to the northwest and Guatemala to the west and south. Honduras lies 75 km away at the two nations' closest point across the Gulf of Honduras to the east. In the Spanish lan
• The Phoenicians develop an alphabet - see Timeline of communication technology
• 1506 BC - Cecrops, legendary King of Athens dies after a reign of 50 years. Having survived his own son, he is succeeded by Cranaus.
• Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC - 1492 BC)
• Earliest evidence (from archaeological excavations) of a settlement at Aylesbury, England.
• 1500 BC - 100 BC - Indus valley civilization - series of raids or small scale migrations by the Aryans from the North-West of Indian Sub-continent.

Significant People

• Thutmose II of Egypt, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt ( 1518 - 1504 BC).
• Thutmose III of Egypt, Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1503 BC - 1450 BC).