Timeline Project (Middle East) By KennethYM1999 3500 BCE Invention of the Wheel 3400 BCE Cuneiform Script, Earliest Writing System 3200 BCE Early Egyptian Writing, Hieroglyphs 2650 BCE Pharaoh Djoser, 1st Built Pyramid 2500 BCE The Epic of Gilgamesh, 1st Great Work of Literature 2500 BCE Upper Nubia established the Kingdom of Kesh 2040 BCE The Middle Kingdom Began 1754 BCE Code of Hammurabi was created 1000 BCE Iron Metallurgy was spread into Sub-Saharan Africa 600 BCE Greek replaced Hieroglyphs and Hieratic as the language in Egypt
