headwall in the distance • BC: Beginning of the
Early Dynastic Period I in
Sumer. • BC:
2600 BC: Votive statues from
the Square Temple of Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar,
Iraq) were made. One of them is now in the
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Excavated 1932–1933. • :
2400 BC:
Sumerian
pictographs evolve into
phonograms. • 2900 BC:
2334 BC:
Mesopotamian
wars of the Early Dynastic period. • 2900 BC:
First Mariote Kingdom founded. • 2890 BC:
Ancient Egypt: Pharaoh
Qa'a died. End of
First Dynasty, start of
Second Dynasty. Pharaoh
Hotepsekhemwy started to rule. • 2890 BC:
Akkadian language names are recorded from about this time period. • 2880 BC: Estimated germination of the
Prometheus Tree, previously thought to be the world's oldest living organism until it was cut down in 1964 AD. • 2879 BC:
Hùng Vương Kinh Dương Vương established the
Hồng Bàng dynasty in Vietnam (then known as
Xích Quỷ). • BC: The
365-day calendar year was installed in ancient Egypt, with fixed lunar months of 30 days + 5
epagomenal days. • 2863 BC: Egyptian 2nd Dynasty Prince Raneb born around this year in history. • 2860 BC: Saqqara Tomb A construction started. • 2852 BC: The beginning of the period of the
Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in China. • • 2832 BC: Estimated germination of the oldest living tree and organism on earth as of 2020 the
Methuselah Tree, the
second-oldest known organism. Sprouting in what would become
Inyo County,
California. • 2807 BC: Suggested date for an
asteroid or
comet impact occurring between
Africa and
Antarctica, around the time of a lunar eclipse on May 10, based on an analysis of flood stories. Possibly causing the
Burckle crater and
Fenambosy Chevron. •
Ur becomes one of the richest cities in
Sumer ==Architecture==