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Event archaeological Africa

Cyrene

631 BCE

Greek colony in Libya and one of the great intellectual centers of the classical world, birthplace of Eratosthenes.

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Standing in 631 BCE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

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Around the same time

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626 BCE Fall of the Assyrian Empire 612 BCE Neo-Babylonian Conquests 600 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BCE Pompeii 600 BCE Tikal 600 BCE Taxila