The Wheel

3500 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Evidence indicates the wheel was created to serve as potter’s wheels around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia—300 years before they were used for chariots. 49000

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Egyptian hieroglyphs

3300 BC-12-01 00:00:00 In 1998, a German archaeological team under Günter Dreyer excavating at Abydos (modern Umm el-Qa’ab) uncovered tomb U-j of a Predynastic ruler, and recovered three hundred clay labels inscribed with proto-hieroglyphs, dating[…]

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Nippur – Sacred City Of Enlil

3200 BC-01-01 00:00:00 The importance of the Mesopotamian holy city, Nippur (Fig. 1), is reflected even today in the great size of the mound, Nuffar (Fig. 2), located between Baghdad and Basra in southern Iraq.[…]

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First recorded written language

3100 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known systems of writing, distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus.The first wrEnter story[…]

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