Ötzi the Iceman dies
~3300 BCE · Event
Copper Age man murdered in the Alps; mummy and equipment preserved in glacier ice.
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Around 3300 BCE
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Stonehenge (2500 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire under Sargon (2334 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)