Prehistory to Ancient Egypt

By LuisMarin
  • 250,000 BCE

    Stone tools

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

    Stone Lamp

    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.
  • 40,000 BCE

    Cave Painting

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

    Terra Amata

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

    Mezhirich

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

    Tanana River Settlement

    Tanana River Settlement
    This is an illustration of what today is Alaska, they are carrying their food on some others are cooking deer.
  • 8500 BCE

    Sowing and livestock

    Sowing and livestock
    The first practices of sowing started in 8500
  • 6000 BCE

    Ceramics

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

    Monolith

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

    Megalith

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

    Dolmen

    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.
  • 3300 BCE

    Stone Row

    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.
  • 3200 BCE

    Newgrange, Ireland

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

    Stonehenge

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

    Menhir

    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.
  • 2580 BCE

    Giza Pyramids

    Giza Pyramids
    Pyramids built in Ancient Egypt as a tomb for the king.
  • 2334 BCE

    Sargon of Akkad

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

    Babylon

    Babylon
    One of the kingdoms in Ancient Mesopotamia
  • 2000 BCE

    Zigurat

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

    Nebuchadnezzar I

    Nebuchadnezzar I
    He ruled for around 22 years
  • 612 BCE

    Ashur-uballit II

    Ashur-uballit II
    He was the final king of Assyria he ruled from 612 to 609 BC
  • 575 BCE

    Ishtar Gate

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