Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East
Explore Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire under Sargon (2334 BCE)
- Code of Hammurabi (1754 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution (10000 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
- Neo-Assyrian Empire (911 BCE)
- Cyrus conquers Babylon (539 BCE)
- Neo-Babylonian Empire (626 BCE)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Sumerian city-states emerge (4000 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (605 BCE)
- Fall of Nineveh (612 BCE)
- Hammurabi (1810 BCE)
- Sargon of Akkad (2334 BCE)
- Third Dynasty of Ur (2112 BCE)
- Babylonian Captivity of the Jews (586 BCE)
- First Dynasty of Ur (2600 BCE)
- Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh (650 BCE)
- Kassite dynasty of Babylon (1595 BCE)
- Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE)
- Code of Ur-Nammu compiled (2100 BCE)
- Tiglath-Pileser III reforms Assyria (745 BCE)
- Ziggurat of Ur (2100 BCE)
- Hittite sack of Babylon (1595 BCE)
- Ishtar Gate built (575 BCE)
- Hanging Gardens of Babylon (600 BCE)
- Enheduanna (2285 BCE)
- Hittite Empire (1600 BCE)