Important events BCE

Important events BCE

Period: 50,000 BCE to 2000 BCE

earliest evidence of aboriginal in australia

43,000 BCE

The oldest human fossil remains found in Australia date to around 40,000 years ago – 20,000 years after the earliest archaeological evidence of human occupation. Nothing is known about the physical appearance of the first humans that entered the continent over 60,000 years ago.

Mungo Lady and Mungo Man

40,000 BCE

Mungo Lady and Mungo Man lived in the region now known as the Willandra Lakes, western New South Wales, around 42,000 years ago during the late Pleistocene era.

early mesopotamian cuneiform

3400 BCE

Cuneiform is an ancient writing system that was first used in around 3400 BC. Distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, cuneiform script is the oldest form of writing in the world, first appearing even earlier than Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Otzi The Iceman

3250 BCE

Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3400 and 3100 BCE was discovered 19 September 1991 on the Ötztal Alps between the border of Austria and Italy.

Great Pyramid Of Egypt

2600 BCE

It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact. Egyptologists conclude that the pyramid was built as a tomb for the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu and estimate that it was built in the 26th century BC during a period of around 27 years.

narrabeen man

2000 BCE

Narrabeen Man is the name given to a 4,000-year-old skeleton of a tall Aboriginal Australian man found during road works in Narrabeen, a suburb of the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, in January 2005