Two of the oldest known literary works are the “Kesh Temple Hymn” and the “Instructions of Shuruppak,” both of which exist in written versions dating to around 2500 B.C.E.
The earliest known docks were those discovered in Wadi al-Jarf, an ancient Egyptian harbor dating from 2500 B.C.E. located on the Red Sea coast.
Black pepper is native to Kerala in Southwestern India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropica regions.
The Há»ng BĂ ng dynasty was a legendary, semimythical period in Vietnamese history spanning from the political union in 2879 B.C.E. of many tribes of the northern Red River Valley to the conquest by An DÆ°ÆĄng VÆ°ÆĄng in 258 B.C.E.
The earliest known cultures in Greenland are the Saqqaq culture (2500â800 B.C.E.) and the Independence I culture in northern Greenland (2400â1300 B.C.E.). The practitioners of these two cultures are thought to have descended from separate groups that came to Greenland from northern Canada.
The first, and largest, pyramid at Giza was built by the pharaoh Khufu (reign started around 2551 B.C.).
Imhotep was an Egyptian chancellor to the Pharaoh Djoser, possible architect of Djoser’s step pyramid, and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical figure, but in the 3,000 years following his death, he was gradually glorified and deified. In his Pulitzer-prize winning âbiographyâ of cancer â The Emperor of All Maladies â Siddhartha Mukherjee cites the oldest identified written diagnosis of cancer to Imhotep.
Sumeria was the first civilization, created the first writing system, and had the first monarch.
The Maya Long Count Calendar gives a Maya creation date of 11 August, 3114 B.C.E., and traces of Maya habitation at Cuello, in Belize, were recently carbon dated to around 2600 B.C.E.
The Old Kingdom, in ancient Egyptian history, is the period in the third millennium (c. 2686-2181 B.C.E.) also known as the ‘Age of the Pyramids’ or ‘Age of the Pyramid Builders’.
