Early writing tablet
c. 3100-3000 BC · Resource
A clay tablet from southern Iraq recording beer rations issued to workers, written in proto-cuneiform pictographs. It shows writing's origins in administration and accounting.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 3050 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)
- Stonehenge (2500 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Domestication of the horse (3500 BCE)
- Mohenjo-daro at its peak (2500 BCE)