Prehistoric to Rome Timeline

  • Period: 30,000 BCE to 9000 BCE

    Paleolithic

  • Venus of WIllendorf
    28,000 BCE

    Venus of WIllendorf

  • Apollo 11 Stones
    25,500 BCE

    Apollo 11 Stones

  • 25,000 BCE

    Humans in the Americas

  • Period: 8000 BCE to 2300 BCE

    Neolithic

  • Beaker with Ibex Motifs
    4200 BCE

    Beaker with Ibex Motifs

  • Anthropomorphic Stele
    4000 BCE

    Anthropomorphic Stele

  • White Temple and its Ziggurat
    3500 BCE

    White Temple and its Ziggurat

  • Palette of Narmer
    3000 BCE

    Palette of Narmer

  • Seated Scribe
    2650 BCE

    Seated Scribe

  • Standard of Ur
    2600 BCE

    Standard of Ur

  • Period: 2575 BCE to 2134 BCE

    Egypt: Old Kingdom

  • Great Pyramids
    2550 BCE

    Great Pyramids

  • 2500 BCE

    Probable date of the first iron objects

  • Stonehenge
    2500 BCE

    Stonehenge

  • Susian Code of Hammurabi
    1792 BCE

    Susian Code of Hammurabi

  • Period: 1550 BCE to 1070 BCE

    Egypt: New Kingdom

  • Ambum Stone
    1500 BCE

    Ambum Stone

  • Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
    1473 BCE

    Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

  • Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
    1353 BCE

    Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

  • Period: 1353 BCE to 1335 BCE

    Amarna

  • 1200 BCE

    The Fall of Troy

  • Tlatilco Female Figurine
    1200 BCE

    Tlatilco Female Figurine

  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

  • 753 BCE

    Rome Founded

  • Lamassu
    720 BCE

    Lamassu

  • Athenian Agora
    600 BCE

    Athenian Agora

  • Anavysos Kourous
    530 BCE

    Anavysos Kourous

  • Peplose Kore from the Acropolis
    530 BCE

    Peplose Kore from the Acropolis

  • Apadana of Darius and Xerxes
    520 BCE

    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

  • Doryphorus (Spear Bearer)
    450 BCE

    Doryphorus (Spear Bearer)

  • Acropolis
    447 BCE

    Acropolis

  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great Dies

  • Period: 323 BCE to 30 BCE

    Hellenistic Greece

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

    Alexander Mosaic from the House of Fawn, Pompeii

  • Seated Boxer
    100 BCE

    Seated Boxer

  • 44 BCE

    The Assassination of Julius Caesar

  • Period: 27 BCE to 284

    Rome: Imperial

  • Augustus of Prima Porta
    1 CE

    Augustus of Prima Porta

  • Colosseum
    70

    Colosseum

  • Pantheon
    118

    Pantheon