Prehistoric to Rome

By bboyland
  • Period: 250,000 BCE to 476

    Prehistoric-Rome

  • 35,000 BCE

    Paleolithic

  • 28,000 BCE

    Venus of Willendorf

    Venus of Willendorf
    Vienna c. 28,000-21,000BCE Limestone
  • 25,000 BCE

    Humans in the Americas

    Humans in the Americas
    Apollo 11 Stones - Namibia c.25,500-25,300BCE Charcoal On stone
  • 6000 BCE

    Neolithic

    Near East
  • 4200 BCE

    Beaker with Ibex

    Beaker with Ibex
    Iran c.4,200-3,500BCE Painted Terra Cotta
  • 4000 BCE

    Neolithic Europe

    Neolithic Europe
    Anthropomorphic Stele - Arabian Peninsula c. 4000 BCE, Sandstone
  • 3500 BCE

    White Temple and its Ziggurat

    White Temple and its Ziggurat
    Uruk, Iraq, c.3,500-3000BCE, Mud Brick
  • 3000 BCE

    Palette of Narmer

    Palette of Narmer
    Egypt, c.3000-2920BCE, Greywacke
  • 2600 BCE

    Egypt - Old Kingdom

    Egypt - Old Kingdom
    Ur, Iraq, c.2,600-2,400BCE, Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone
  • 2600 BCE

    Seated Scribe

    Seated Scribe
    Egypt, c.2650-2500BCE, Painted Limestone
  • 2550 BCE

    Great Pyramids

    Great Pyramids
    Giza, Egypt, c.2550-2490BCE, Cut Limestone
  • 2500 BCE

    First Iron Objects

    First Iron Objects
    Stonehenge, Wiltshire, UK c.2500-1600BCE: Sandstone
  • 1790 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi

    Code of Hammurabi
    Babylon, Iran, c.1,792-1,750BCE, Basalt
  • 1550 BCE

    Egypt - New Kingdom

  • 1500 BCE

    The Ambum Stone

    The Ambum Stone
    Papua New Guinea c. 1,500 BCE Greywacke
  • 1470 BCE

    Hatshepsut

    Hatshepsut
    Luxor, Egypt, c.1473-1458BCE, Sandstone
  • 1350 BCE

    Amarna

    Amarna
    Akhenaton - Amarna, Egypt, c.1353-1335BCE, limestone
  • 1200 BCE

    Fall of Troy

    Fall of Troy
    Tlatilco female figurine - Mexico c.1,200-900BCE, Ceramic
  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

  • 753 BCE

    Rome Founded

  • 720 BCE

    Lamassu

    Lamassu
    Dur Sharrukin, Iraq, c. 720-705BCE, Alabaster
  • 600 BCE

    Athenian Agora

    Athenian Agora
    Greece, Archaic through Hellenistic, c.600BCE-150CE,
  • 530 BCE

    Peplos Kore

    Peplos Kore
    Archaic Greek, c.530BCE, Marble with painted details
  • 530 BCE

    Anavysos Kouros

    Anavysos Kouros
    Archaic Greek, c.530BCE, Marble with paint remnants
  • 520 BCE

    Apadana

    Apadana
    Persepolis, Iran, c.520-465BCE, Limestone
  • 510 BCE

    Rome - Republic

  • 480 BCE

    Greek - Classical

  • 479 BCE

    Persian Wars begin

  • 450 BCE

    Doryphoros

    Doryphoros
    Roman Marble copy of Greek Bronze original, c. 450-440 BCE
  • 447 BCE

    Acropolis

    Acropolis
    Acropolis Complex attributed to Iktinos and Kallikrates - Athens, Greece, c.447-410BCE
  • 325 BCE

    Greek - Hellenistic

  • 323 BCE

    Alexander The Great Dies

  • 100 BCE

    Seated Boxer

    Seated Boxer
    Hellenistic Greek, c.100BCE, Bronze
  • 100 BCE

    Alexander Mosaic

    Alexander Mosaic
    Pompeii, Italy, Republican Roman, c.100BCE, Mosaic
  • 44 BCE

    The assassination of Julius Caesar

  • 50

    Imperial Rome

    Imperial Rome
    Augustus of Prima Porta - Imperial Roman, c. 50 CE, Marble
  • 70

    Colosseum

    Colosseum
    Rome, Italy, Imperial Roman, c.70-80CE, Stone and Concrete
  • 120

    Pantheon

    Pantheon
    Imperial Roman, 118-125CE, Concrete with Stone Facing
  • 476

    Western Rome falls

    476 CE