Paracas Textile
c. 300-200 BC · Resource
An elaborately embroidered border textile of the Paracas culture of coastal Peru, used to wrap mummified dead. Its tiny figures depict the deities and beliefs of an Andean society.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 250 BCE
- Wars of the Diadochi (322 BCE)
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 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)