Indus seal
c. 2500-2000 BC · Resource
A carved steatite stamp seal of the Indus Valley Civilisation, bearing an animal and undeciphered script. Seals like this were probably used to mark goods and property in the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 2250 BCE
- Maya civilisation (2000 BCE)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire (2334 BCE)
- Minoan civilisation (2000 BCE)
- Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2055 BCE)
- The Great Flood (2348 BCE)
- Abraham, father of the covenant (2166 BCE)
- The Age of the Patriarchs (2166 BCE)
- Domestication of the horse (2200 BCE)
- Mohenjo-daro at its peak (2500 BCE)