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
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Han dynasty begins (202 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)
- Great Wall first connected under Qin (215 BCE)
- Qin Shi Huang (259 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Archimedes (287 BCE)