Oxus chariot model
c. 500-300 BC · Resource
A miniature gold four-horse chariot carrying two figures in Median dress, the finest piece of the Oxus Treasure of Achaemenid Persian goldwork. It illustrates elite craftsmanship at the height of the Persian Empire.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 400 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (490 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Construction of the Parthenon (447 BCE)
- Parthenon (447 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War begins (431 BCE)