Prehistoric to Rome Timeline

  • Period: 30,000 BCE to 9000 BCE

    Paleolithic

  • 28,000 BCE

    Venus of WIllendorf

    Venus of WIllendorf
  • 25,500 BCE

    Apollo 11 Stones

    Apollo 11 Stones
  • 25,000 BCE

    Humans in the Americas

  • Period: 8000 BCE to 2300 BCE

    Neolithic

  • 4200 BCE

    Beaker with Ibex Motifs

    Beaker with Ibex Motifs
  • 4000 BCE

    Anthropomorphic Stele

    Anthropomorphic Stele
  • 3500 BCE

    White Temple and its Ziggurat

    White Temple and its Ziggurat
  • 3000 BCE

    Palette of Narmer

    Palette of Narmer
  • 2650 BCE

    Seated Scribe

    Seated Scribe
  • 2600 BCE

    Standard of Ur

    Standard of Ur
  • Period: 2575 BCE to 2134 BCE

    Egypt: Old Kingdom

  • 2550 BCE

    Great Pyramids

    Great Pyramids
  • 2500 BCE

    Probable date of the first iron objects

  • 2500 BCE

    Stonehenge

    Stonehenge
  • 1792 BCE

    Susian Code of Hammurabi

    Susian Code of Hammurabi
  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE

    Egypt: New Kingdom

  • 1500 BCE

    Ambum Stone

    Ambum Stone
  • 1473 BCE

    Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

    Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
  • 1353 BCE

    Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

    Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
  • Period: 1353 BCE to 1335 BCE

    Amarna

  • 1200 BCE

    The Fall of Troy

  • 1200 BCE

    Tlatilco Female Figurine

    Tlatilco Female Figurine
  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

  • 753 BCE

    Rome Founded

  • 720 BCE

    Lamassu

    Lamassu
  • 600 BCE

    Athenian Agora

    Athenian Agora
  • 530 BCE

    Anavysos Kourous

    Anavysos Kourous
  • 530 BCE

    Peplose Kore from the Acropolis

    Peplose Kore from the Acropolis
  • 520 BCE

    Apadana of Darius and Xerxes

    Apadana of Darius and Xerxes
  • Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE

    Rome: Republic

  • Period: 480 BCE to 323 BCE

    Classical Greece

  • Period: 479 BCE to 449 BCE

    Persian Wars

  • 476 BCE

    Western Rome Falls

  • 450 BCE

    Doryphorus (Spear Bearer)

    Doryphorus (Spear Bearer)
  • 447 BCE

    Acropolis

    Acropolis
  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great Dies

  • Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE

    Hellenistic Greece

  • 100 BCE

    Alexander Mosaic from the House of Fawn, Pompeii

    Alexander Mosaic from the House of Fawn, Pompeii
  • 100 BCE

    Seated Boxer

    Seated Boxer
  • 44 BCE

    The Assassination of Julius Caesar

  • Period: 27 BCE to 284

    Rome: Imperial

  • 1 CE

    Augustus of Prima Porta

    Augustus of Prima Porta
  • 70

    Colosseum

    Colosseum
  • 118

    Pantheon

    Pantheon