Culture & IdeasThe 3rd millennium BCE

Culture & Ideas in the 3rd millennium BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 3rd millennium BCE — 7 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 3000 BCE to 2500 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
7
Nations
5
Earliest
3000 BCE
Latest
2500 BCE
Asia
5
Africa
2

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. 3rd millennium BCEAsia

    Oman

    Beehive tombs and towers at Bat

    The Bronze Age communities of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn raised monumental stone towers and dry-stone beehive tombs, later inscribed by UNESCO in 1988 as the most complete such collection in the world.

    Era: Magan, Copper and the Land of Frankincense

    Sources: Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  2. c. 3rd millennium BCEAsia

    United Arab Emirates

    Hafit-period tombs near Jebel Hafit

    Beehive-shaped stone tombs of the Hafit period appear on the slopes of Jebel Hafit near Al Ain, the earliest monumental architecture of the region and a marker of settled life at the desert's edge.

    Era: Bronze Age Oases and the Pearling Coast

    Sources: Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas) · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Six new sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List (2011) · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  3. c. 2630 BCEAfrica

    Egypt

    Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara

    Imhotep designs the Step Pyramid for King Djoser, the first monumental stone structure in Egypt and a prototype for the pyramids to come.

    Era: The Pharaonic Kingdoms

    Sources: Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  4. c. 2600 BCEAsia

    India

    Mohenjo-daro flourishes

    Mohenjo-daro, on the Indus in modern Pakistan, becomes one of the civilisation's largest cities and is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its Great Bath and citadel.

    Era: The Indus Valley Civilisation

    Sources: Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Indus Valley Civilization · World History Encyclopedia

  5. c. 2600 BCEAsia

    Pakistan

    Mohenjo-daro flourishes

    On the right bank of the Indus in Sindh, Mohenjo-daro becomes one of the civilisation's largest cities, renowned for its citadel and Great Bath; it is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    Era: The Indus Valley Civilisation

    Sources: Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Mohenjo-daro · Encyclopædia Britannica

  6. c. 2560 BCEAfrica

    Egypt

    Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza

    King Khufu raises the Great Pyramid at Giza, the largest of the pyramids and the sole surviving wonder of the ancient world.

    Era: The Pharaonic Kingdoms

    Sources: Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  7. c. 2500 BCEAsia

    United Arab Emirates

    The Umm an-Nar culture flourishes

    Named for an island off Abu Dhabi, the Umm an-Nar culture built circular communal tombs, fortified towers and agricultural settlements at Hili, trading copper and goods with Mesopotamia and the Indus valley.

    Era: Bronze Age Oases and the Pearling Coast

    Sources: The Bronze Age Sites of Hili · Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi, Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas) · UNESCO World Heritage Centre