How these dates were made
Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.
The atlas draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Damot appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.
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.
Landmark · Middle East
Great Pyramid of Giza
2560 BCE – still standingPolity · Middle East
Meroe
Attested 500 BCE – 400 CETrade route · Middle East
Nile River Trade
3000 BCE – 30 BCEConflict · Middle East
Wars of the Diadochi
322 BCE – 281 BCELandmark · Middle East
Petra
300 BCE – still standingPolity · Middle East
Egypt
Attested 3000 BCE – 2026 CETrade route · Middle East
Egyptian Red Sea Trade
2500 BCE – 30 BCELandmark · Middle East
Dead Sea
3000 BCE – still standingDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 300 BCE and 300 BCE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Great Pyramid of GizaDouwe C. van der Zee · CC BY-SA 4.0
- MeroëWufei07 · Public domain
- Diadochi LAThis vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file: · CC BY-SA 3.0
- PetraAzurfrog · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of EgyptDerived from Part IV Article (223) of the Constitution of The Arab Republic of Egypt. Col… · Public domain
- Dead Seaلا روسا · CC BY-SA 4.0