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Landmark Middle East wonder

Bayuda Desert

3000 BCE – still standing

Volcanic desert enclosed by the great bend of the Nile in Sudan, dotted with extinct cinder cones and crossed by ancient caravan routes

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Bayuda Desert on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Kerma (3000 BCE–2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. Kush (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Meroe (500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Kush (400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Meroe (323 BCE–400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Makuria (500 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1492 CE–1500 CE)
  8. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Funj (1715 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1815 CE)
  11. Egypt (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  12. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Sudan (1920 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

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Eritrean–Ethiopian War

1998 CE – 2000 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Middle East

2026 Iran War

2026 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

3000 BCE Byblos 3000 BCE Damascus 3000 BCE Sidon 3000 BCE Dilmun 2750 BCE Tyre 2700 BCE Saqqara

And in the rest of the world

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Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing
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