Culture & IdeasThe 4th century BCE

Culture & Ideas in the 4th century BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged culture and ideas — art, language, science and learning, narrowed to the 4th century BCE — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 400 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
400 BCE
Latest
400 BCE
Asia
1
Europe
1

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

  1. 4th–3rd c. BCEEurope

    Bulgaria

    Thracian royal tombs of Kazanlak and Sveshtari

    The painted tholos tomb at Kazanlak and the richly sculpted tomb at Sveshtari, among the finest monuments of the Thracian civilisation, were later inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 and 1985.

    Era: Thracians, Asparukh's Khanate and the First Bulgarian Empire

    Sources: Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari · UNESCO World Heritage Centre

  2. c. 4th century BCEAsia

    Kazakhstan

    The Saka 'Golden Man' of Issyk

    A high-status Saka warrior is buried in the Issyk kurgan near Almaty in a costume of thousands of gold plaques, a celebrated emblem of the Iron Age nomad cultures that dominated the Kazakh steppe in the first millennium BCE.

    Era: The Saka and the Turkic Steppe

    Sources: Ancient Sakas: All You Need to Know · The Astana Times, History of Kazakhstan · Encyclopædia Britannica