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Timelines - Babylonia

[Anatolia][Assyria][Babylonia]
[Hittites][Jews][Medes][Mesopotamia]
[Persia][Syria][Ugarit]
[Near East Index] also see [Near East Maps]

5000-1595 BC Sumerian Timeline
Early Sumer, through Gilgamesh and Hammurabi, up until the Hittite raids on Sumer and Akkad.

Chronological Timetable of Book History
Clay tablets, papyrus, bamboo, parchment, wax tablets, and paper were all used between 3500 and 100 BC. Timetable extends to 16th C.

Comparative Chronology of Money
By Roy Davies & Glyn Davies. From 9,000 - 1 B.C., dates and the corresponding development, from domestication of cattle to the reforms of Augustus. Continues with 1-499 A.D.

Cross Cultural Timeline
From The History Channel, this graphic timeline shows what was happening in Greece, Asia Minor, India, China, and Egypt from 3500 B.C..

EAWC Chronology: The Near East
Annotated and hypertext linked timeline from 3450 B.C. to A.D. 66.

Poppa's Ancient World
Division of regional history into four periods, 8000 - 3500 B.C., 3500 - 2000 B.C., 2000 - 1200 B.C., and 1200 B.C. - 400 B.C.

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