Timeline of ancient religions and society

By Tylah
  • 50,000 BCE

    Symbolic Revolution

  • 40,000 BCE

    Mungo Woman

  • Period: 40,000 BCE to 130,000 BCE

    Homo neanderthalensis

  • Period: 37,000 BCE to 230,000 BCE

    Lazaret Cave

  • Period: 31,000 BCE to 40,000 BCE

    Aurignacian flutes

  • Period: 30,000 BCE to 60,000 BCE

    Homo heidelbergensis

  • Period: 23,600 BCE to 33,500 BCE

    homo naledi

    between 335,000 and 236,000 years ago
  • 13,000 BCE

    Trois-Frères cave

  • 10,000 BCE

    Thousand year drought

  • Period: 9600 BCE to 7000 BCE

    Gobekli Tepe

  • Period: 4500 BCE to 1900 BCE

    Sumerian Empire

  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Cuneiform

  • Period: 2900 BCE to 2350 BCE

    Gilgamesh

  • Period: 1353 BCE to 1335 BCE

    Pharaoh Akhenaton

  • Period: 930 BCE to 1047 BCE

    Ancient Israelite Commonwealth

  • Period: 668 BCE to 627 BCE

    Ashurbanipal

  • Period: 300 BCE to 500 BCE

    Axial Age

  • 1 BCE

    Dmanisi skull

    1.8 million years old
  • Period: 610 to 632

    Qur’an

  • Agricultural revolution