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First use of Göbekli Tepe, oldest megalithic site known. -
First evidence of settlement activity at Jericho. -
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Clay tokens of different shapes and sizes are used to convey information such as quantities. -
A massive project for its time that took many, many work hours to build, it's function is still unclear. -
Based in Southern Turkey, Çatalhöyük didn't appear to practice much agriculture, yet still supported thousands of people - possibly through trade and religious pilgrimages. -
Painting of 'Running Horned Woman' at Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria -
A key neolithic manufacturing and trade center in the Near and Middle East. -
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A "billboard" of hieroglyphs carved into the rocks near the Egyptian village of El-Khawy. -
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Neolithic settlement found on the Orkney Islands north of the Scottish isles. -
Evidence of pits dug to hold up wooden pillars, possibly for a building. Stones would later replace the wood. -
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First Egyptian dynasty founded by Menes (Narmer). -
Key city in the Indus valley and early example of extensive water management systems. -
Approximate founding of the Great Pyramid of Giza. -
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Establishment of Xia Dynasty in North East China by Yu The Great, generally accepted as the first dynasty emerging from China's yellow river valley. -
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The Olmec settle their capital, La Venta, just north of the Mesoamerican isthmus. -
Civilisations that arose on mainland Greece and would eventually conquer the surrounding areas, climaxing with the fall of Troy and disappeared during the bronze age collapse.
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Start of Shang dynasty, the first Chinese dynasty supported by significant historical evidence. The Xia dynasty id defeated at the Battle of Mingtiao by a warlord named Tang. -
Massive eruption that destroyed part of the Thera and sparked the decline of the Minoan civilisation on Crete. -
Earliest signs of the Olmec as a civilisation, appearing in Mesoamerica.
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First historically verified Chinese dynasty and a substantial influence on Yellow River (later Han) culture ever since.
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Special bones used by Shang dynasty diviners to read the future. An early form of writing that still echoes in the modern Chinese alphabet. -
A dark age caused by multiple factors including natural resources running out, prolonged droughts and growing political instability, culminating to a collapse of the economies and most major civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa and Middle East.
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The battle that defeated the infamous 'Sea People', a still undefined group of marauders or refugees that attacked coastal settlements. The battle was fought against the Egyptians, who won and subsequently recorded the event. -
Believed to be one of the first 'horse' societies later popularised by civilisations such as the Huns and Mongols. -
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The accepted date of Rome's establishment, though little but myth remains on what happened. -
The period after the Romans kicked out the Etruscan kings and before it was changed into a permanent dictatorship under Augustus' reign.
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From Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, to Romulus Augustulus, who was deposed by a Germanic warlord.
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From the revitalisation of Constantinople by Constantine the Great until the city is captured by the Ottoman empire.
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Approximate period during which Norwegian sailors raided, traded with and provided mercenary forces to the British Isles and Western Europe.
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Established by Suryavarman II as a Hindu site, but started conversion to a Buddhist site after his death. -
The empire created by Genghis Khan through to slowly dissolving after the deaths of his grandchildren.
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Kublai Khan's famous city (also called Xanadu) that was central to the golden age of his reign in western China.
