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Polity Middle East

Elam

Attested 3000 BCE – 700 BCE

Ancient pre-Iranian civilization between 3200 and 539 BC

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How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 5 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Elam appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

3000 BCE 5 snapshots · 1,000 years unattested at the widest 700 BCE
3000 BCE2000 BCE1500 BCE1000 BCE700 BCE

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

Saba

Attested 1500 BCE – 100 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Unification of Egypt

3100 BCE – 2950 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Egyptian Red Sea Trade

2500 BCE – 30 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Great Sphinx of Giza

2500 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Kingdom of David and Solomon

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Campaigns of Thutmose III

1457 BCE – 1425 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Incense Route

1000 BCE – 200 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 700 BCE.

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 Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Harappan Maritime Trade (Indus–Mesopotamia) Trade route · South Asia 2600 BCE – 1900 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars Conflict · East Asia 771 BCE – 476 BCE Mycenae Landmark · Europe 1600 BCE – still standing
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