The first year of the ancient Egyptian calendar commences
The ancient Egyptian calendar was a solar calendar with a 365-day year.
Early humans
First gold jewelry created, perhaps in modern-day Bulgaria
In 1976, archaeologists unearthed gold jewellery in the Bulgarian Black sea city of Varna, which they claimed was the world’s oldest gold artifact ever found.
Humans invent the plow
A plow is a tool or farm implement used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting to loosen or turn the soil.
Humans of the Indus Valley civilization invented irrigation
Irrigation was used as a means of manipulation of water in the alluvial plains of the Indus valley civilization, the application of it is estimated to have begun around 4500 B.C.E. and drastically increased the size and prosperity of their agricultural settlements.
The Varna Necropolis in modern-day Bulgaria becomes perhaps the world’s first major gold hoard
The so-called Varna Necropolis is a burial site from 4569-4340 B.C.E. and is internationally considered one of the key archaeological sites in world prehistory.
The Cairn of Barnenez – prehistoric mausoleum – is constructed in Brittany, France
The Cairn de Barnenez (known also as Barnenez Mound or Barnenez Tumulus) is one of the oldest structures in the world that is still standing.
Use of the healing Iboga plant emerges in Western African spiritual ceremonies
The roots of ibogaine trace all the way back to Africa where the naturally occurring psychoactive substance has been used for thousands of years. It is especially sacred to the Bwiti tribe of Cameroon and the Gabon region where they use the substance as a natural healer and in rites of passage ceremonies.
First beer is brewed in Iran
Beer is one of the oldest beverages humans have produced, dating back to at least the 5th millenium B.C.E. in Iran, and recorded in the written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and was spread throughout world.
Humans in ancient Greece invent the aulos, an early wind instrument
The aulos was a musical wind instrument played by the ancient Greeks. Made from cane, boxwood, bone, ivory, or occasionally metals the circular pipe (bombyke) was fitted with bulbous mouth pieces which gave the instrument a different pitch.
Humans in South America begin using ayahuasca to heal and discover
Writers on ayahuasca have often proposed that the use of the drink is very ancient; the date of about 5000 years BP recurs frequently.