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Landmark Middle East wonder

Wadi Rum

3000 BCE – still standing

Red sandstone desert valley in Jordan with dramatic rock arches and ancient petroglyphs

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Who held this ground

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

Reconstruction

  1. Semites (3000 BCE–2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  2. Canaan (1500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kingdom of David and Solomon (1000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Assyria (700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (323 BCE)
  7. Nabatean Kingdom (300 BCE–100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Roman Empire (200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Rome (Diocletianus) (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Eastern Roman Empire (400 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Fatimid Caliphate (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Ayyubid Sultanate (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Mamluk Sultanate (1279 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Mesopotamia (GB) (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  18. Kingdom of Iraq (1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  19. Mesopotamia (GB) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  20. Transjordan (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  21. Jordan (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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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 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

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

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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