Zhou ritual vessel (Kang Hou gui)
c. 1100-1000 BC · Resource
A bronze ritual food vessel of the early Western Zhou, its interior inscription commemorating the suppression of a Shang rebellion. Such gui were used in ancestor-worship ceremonies.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1050 BCE
- Zhou dynasty (1046 BCE)
- Exodus from Egypt (1300 BCE)
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)
- Upanishads composed (800 BCE)
- Zoroaster composes the Gathas (1100 BCE)
- Zoroaster (1200 BCE)
- Founding of Carthage (814 BCE)
- Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 BCE)
- King David (1040 BCE)
- Bronze Age collapse (1200 BCE)