11.   The graves at Cherchen and Hami also produced the most intriguing textile samples from the late second millennium B.C.

12.   The second millennium is ending not with a bang or a whimper but with a sales pitch.

13.   This encounter epitomizes the triumphs and tensions of Christianity as it ends its second millennium.

14.   Writing unmistakably ancestral to that of modern China is preserved from the second millennium B.C., though it probably arose earlier.

15.   Writing in China dates back to the Shang period toward the end of the second millennium B.C., and it dates to the first millennium B.C. in Mesoamerica.

16.   Europe geared up Thursday night for a high-spirited welcome to the last year of the second millennium, as partygoers took to the streets of their capital cities.

17.   Some even believe the end of the second millennium could herald the end of the world.

18.   The Hittites were a patriarchal, highly agricultural people who ruled over much of the eastern and central parts of the Anatolian Peninsula during the second millennium BC.

19.   The Khan dates to the second millennium B.C.

20.   The situation facing the country as the second millennium draws to a close is evidence that the political system has failed to consistently implement the human values of Pancasila.