Prehistory to Ancient Egypt

  • Stone tools
    250,000 BCE

    Stone tools

    2.5 Million years ago
    In the paleolithic era they use stone tools for hunting and many more activites
  • Stone Lamp
    50,000 BCE

    Stone Lamp

    They were the first lamps to ever exist, it helped them for ilumination in caves and for the places they used to live in.
  • Cave Painting
    40,000 BCE

    Cave Painting

    It was kind of a magical or spiritual ritual to paint animals and other mitological creatures in caves
  • Terra Amata
    40,000 BCE

    Terra Amata

    In the paleolithic era It provided protection for a group of people, it is made of sticks
  • Mezhirich
    15,000 BCE

    Mezhirich

    It was a settlement made out of mammoth bone structures in Ukraine
  • Tanana River Settlement
    14,000 BCE

    Tanana River Settlement

    This is an illustration of what today is Alaska, they are carrying their food on some others are cooking deer.
  • Sowing and livestock
    8500 BCE

    Sowing and livestock

    The first practices of sowing started in 8500
  • Ceramics
    6000 BCE

    Ceramics

    In the Neolithic era they started to create ceramics where they would storage water and they would also be plates, jars, etc.
  • Monolith
    6000 BCE

    Monolith

    A large block of stone used as a monument
  • Megalith
    4500 BCE

    Megalith

    Monuments or tombs made out of big and large stones
  • Dolmen
    4000 BCE

    Dolmen

    Two or more megalith in a vertical position with another one in top of them but in an horizontal way, as if it was a table. They were supposed to be tombs.
  • Stone Row
    3300 BCE

    Stone Row

    The arrangement of stones in a line, it is believed that it had several funcstions such as a road or as a tomb.
  • Newgrange, Ireland
    3200 BCE

    Newgrange, Ireland

    They were communal graves, experts have found skeletal remains in there.
  • Stonehenge
    3100 BCE

    Stonehenge

    A monment in England surrounded of standing stones used as a burial place.
  • Menhir
    2800 BCE

    Menhir

    A megalithic monument which is only a stone in a vertical position, since there have been skeletal remains found down this monuments it is believed that Menhir were tombs.
  • Giza Pyramids
    2580 BCE

    Giza Pyramids

    Pyramids built in Ancient Egypt as a tomb for the king.
  • Sargon of Akkad
    2334 BCE

    Sargon of Akkad

    He was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire,
  • Babylon
    2300 BCE

    Babylon

    One of the kingdoms in Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Zigurat
    2000 BCE

    Zigurat

    It is a temple from Mesopotamia with a pyramid form.
  • Nebuchadnezzar I
    1125 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar I

    He ruled for around 22 years
  • Ashur-uballit II
    612 BCE

    Ashur-uballit II

    He was the final king of Assyria he ruled from 612 to 609 BC
  • Ishtar Gate
    575 BCE

    Ishtar Gate

    It was the entrance to the city of Babylon during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar II