• Before 3000 BC: An image of a deity (detail from a
cong) recovered from Tomb 12 in Fanshan,
Yuyao,
Zhejiang, is made during the
Neolithic period by the
Liangzhu culture. It is now kept at
Zhejiang Provincial Museum,
Hangzhou. • c. 3000 BC: Earliest remains from
Aniba (Nubia). • c. 3000 BC: Early agriculture in
North Africa. • c. 3300 BC – 2600 BC:
Early Harappan period continues in the
Indus Valley. • c. 3000 BC:
Camels are domesticated in Egypt. • c. 3000 BC: There is an intense phase of burial at on the
Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the High King of
Ireland. • c. 3000 BC:
Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version, it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts. • c. 3000 BC:
Cycladic civilization in the
Aegean Sea starts. • c. 3000 BC:
Helladic period starts. • c. 3000 BC:
Aegean Bronze Age starts. • c. 3000 BC:
Austronesian expansion begins. • c. 3000 BC:
Jawa, Jordan is founded along with the world's first known dam. • c. 2960 BC: Death of Egyptian
First Dynasty pharaoh
Semerkhet, whose name marks the first definitive use of a
Nebty name. • c. 2920 BC:
Troy is founded on this date (assuming the interpretation of
Manfred Korfmann is followed). • c. 2900+ BC
Prometheus would have sprouted in this century. ==Inventions, discoveries, introductions==