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Landmark Middle East archaeological

Ur

3800 BCE – still standing

Ancient Sumerian city-state, birthplace of Abraham

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Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Ur (3000 BCE–2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. Mitanni (1500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Arameans (1000 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Seleucid Kingdom (300 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Parthia (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Parthian Empire (1 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Roman Empire (100 CE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Sasanian Empire (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Persia (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Sasanian Empire (500 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Buwayhid Emirates (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Seljuk Empire (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Khwarazmian Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Ilkhanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  20. Emirate of the White Sheep Turks (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  21. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  22. Mesopotamia (GB) (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  23. Kingdom of Iraq (1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  24. Mesopotamia (GB) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  25. Iraq (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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Landmark · Middle East

Great Pyramid of Giza

2560 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Iran

Founded 1920 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Middle East

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 3800 BCE and 2026 CE.

3200 BCE Ancient Thebes 3100 BCE Unification of Egypt 3100 BCE Early Sumerian City-State Wars 3100 BCE Memphis 3000 BCE Byblos

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 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 Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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