In Mesopotamia Neolithic Tokens are Developed for "Concrete" Counting
(Circa 8,000 BCE)
8,000 BCE to 1,000 BCE Timeline Outline
The Earliest Known Fermented Beverage
(Circa 7,000 BCE)
In China, Possibly the Earliest Attempt at Writing
(Circa 6,600 BCE)
A Wallpainting that Could be a Landscape or a Map
(Circa 6,200 BCE)
Domestication of the Aurochs, Ancestors of Domestic Cattle
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(Circa 6,000 BCE)
The Earliest Evidence of Cheese-Making in Europe
(Circa 5,500 BCE –
5,000 BCE)
The Earliest Prehistoric Town in Europe
(Circa 4,700 BCE –
4,200 BCE)
The First Settlements in the Paris Basin
(Circa 4,200 BCE)
The Earliest Known Winery
(Circa 4,000 BCE)
The Earliest Precursors to Writing in Egypt are Rock Drawings
(Circa 3,750 BCE)
One Theory of the Origins of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
(Circa 3,600 BCE –
3,200 BCE)
The Oldest Known Well-Preserved Leather Shoe
(Circa 3,500 BCE)
The Earliest Images of a Wheeled Vehicle
(Circa 3,500 BCE –
3,350 BCE)
The Earliest Known Egyptian Writing
(Circa 3,320 BCE –
3,150 BCE)
Cuneiform Writing in Mesopotomia Begins at Uruk in Association with the…
(Circa 3,200 BCE –
2,900 BCE)
One of the Earliest Surviving Works of Narrative Relief Sculpture, Looted…
(Circa 3,200 BCE –
3,000 BCE)
The Oldest-Known List of Titles and Occupations
(Circa 3,200 BCE)
The Earliest Inscription Written in Hieratic
(3,200 BCE)
The Word Bibliography is Derived from a Greek Word for Papyrus
(Circa 3,100 BCE –
3,050 BCE)
The Earliest Autograph Signatures
(Circa 3,100 BCE)
Education in the Bronze Age in the Middle East
(Circa 3,000 BCE –
1,200 BCE)
The Oldest Known Papyrus Roll - Blank
(Circa 2,900 BCE)
The Oldest Non-Clonal, Acknowledged Living Organism
(Circa 2,832 BCE)
Pavlopetri: the Oldest Submerged Town Site
(2,800 BCE)
The First Securely Datable Mathematical Table in World History
(Circa 2,600 BCE)
The Wooden Panels of Hesy-Ra: Government Official, Physician, and Scribe
(Circa 2,600 BCE –
2,500 BCE)
The Abu Salbikh Tablet Lost in the Iraq War
(Circa 2,500 BCE)
The Origins of Glassmaking
(Circa 2,500 BCE –
1,250 BCE)
The Palace Archive of Ebla, Syria
(2,500 BCE –
2250)
One of the Oldest, Largest & Best Preserved Vessels from Antiquity
(Circa 2,500 BCE)
The Earliest Known Egyptian Papyri
(2,500 BCE)
The World's Oldest Harbor
(Circa 2,500 BCE)
The Oldest Known Religious Texts
(Circa 2,400 BCE –
2,300 BCE)
The Earliest Known Dictionaries
(Circa 2,300 BCE)
The Earliest Printing was Stamped into Soft Clay in Mesopotamia
(Circa 2,291 BCE –
2,254 BCE)
One of the Oldest Known Ancient Mesopotamian Medical Texts
(2,112 BCE –
2,004 BCE)
The Oldest Known Tablet Containing a Legal Code
(2,100 BCE –
2,050 BCE)
One of the Earliest Surviving Documents Written on Papyrus
(Circa 2,000 BCE)
"The World's First Typewritten Document" - James Chadwick
(Circa 2,000 BCE –
1,700 BCE)
The Older of the Two Best-Known Mathematical Papyri
(Circa 2,000 BCE)
One of the Earliest Medical and Mathematical Documents
(Circa 2,000 BCE)
The Earliest Surviving Literary or Library Catalogues
(Circa 2,000 BCE)
The Oldest Surviving Illustrated Papyrus Roll
(Circa 1,980 BCE)
The Most Famous Document of Babylonian Mathematics
(Circa 1,900 BCE –
1,700 BCE)
Illustrating the Pythagorean Theorem and the Square Root of Two
(Circa 1,900 BCE –
1,700 BCE)
Probably the Most Ancient Surviving Fermented Beverages
(Circa 1,900 BCE –
700 BCE)
The Oldest Known Medical Papyrus
(Circa 1,800 BCE)
Thousands of Cuneiform Tablets Document Babylonian Mathematics
(1,800 BCE –
1,600 BCE)
Probably the Earliest Surviving Recipe for Making Beer
(Circa 1,800 BCE)
The Code of Hammurabi
(Circa 1,760 BCE)
The Earliest Surviving Recipes
(Circa 1,700 BCE)
The Rigveda
(Circa 1,700 BCE –
1,100 BCE)
The Oldest Surgical Treatise
(Circa 1,600 BCE)
The Largest Surviving Medical Treatise from Ancient Mesopotamia
(Circa 1,600 BCE)
The Nebra Sky Disk
(1,600 BCE)
The Most Extensive Record of Ancient Egyptian Medicine
(Circa 1,550 BCE)
Egyptian Scribal Palettes with Ink Wells and Brushes
(Circa 1,550 BCE –
1450)
In Ancient Egypt Only the "Book of the Dead" Papyri Were Commercially Produced
(Circa 1,550 BCE –
50 BCE)
Wooden Writing Board Containing Text of the Words of Khakheperresoneb
(Circa 1,500 BCE)
Survey of Ancient Libraries and Archives in the Near East
(1,500 BCE –
300 BCE)
One of the Earliest Known Examples of Writing in Europe
(Circa 1,490 BCE –
1,390 BCE)
Wooden Drawing Board with a figure of Thutmose III
(Circa 1,450 BCE)
The Proto-Canaanite Alphabet
(1,450 BCE –
1,050 BCE)
The Oldest Surviving Water Clock or Clepsydra
(1,417 BCE –
1,379 BCE)
The Earliest Surviving Detailed Bibliographical Entries
(Circa 1,400 BCE)
The Earliest Bookplates, or Ex-Libris
(1,391 BCE –
1,353 BCE)
The Uluburun Shipwreck
(1,375 BCE)
Archive of Egyptian Diplomatic Correspondence Written in the Diplomatic…
(Circa 1,360 BCE –
1,330 BCE)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
(Circa 1,300 BCE –
1,000 BCE)
Self-Portrait of an Egyptian Scribe with his Autograph Signature
(Circa 1,292 BCE –
1,069 BCE)
The Papyrus of Ani
(Circa 1,275 BCE –
1,250 BCE)
The Only Ancient Egyptian Document that Mentions Israel
(1,209 BCE –
1,208 BCE)
The Earliest Chinese Inscriptions that are Indisputably Writing
(Circa 1,200 BCE –
1,050 BCE)
Diseases of the Anus and Headaches
(1,200 BCE)
Imperial Purple
(1,200 BCE)
The Earliest Chinese Inscriptions in Bronze
(Circa 1,200 BCE –
1,045 BCE)
The Longest Known Egyptian Papyrus
(Circa 1,186 BCE –
1,155 BCE)
