Mummy of Hornedjitef
c. 250 BC · Resource
The elaborately decorated coffins, mask and mummy of Hornedjitef, a priest of Amun at Karnak during the early Ptolemaic period, excavated at Thebes. Neil MacGregor chose it to open the BBC/British Museum series.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 250 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Hellenistic period (323 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)