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The harp and the lyre are in use as musical instruments in Mesopotamia
Byblos (modern Jbeil) evolves to become the most important seaport and city of Phoenicia
Sirius rises in this year on the first day of the first Egyptian month - a rare event which possibly launches the Egyptian calendar system
Imhotep creates the first pyramid - the 'step pyramid' at Saqqara - as a tomb for the pharaoh Djoser
The Canaanites establish themselves in the region around what is now Jerusalem
The Sumerians, in Mesopotamia, write multiplication tables on clay tablets
Egypt enters the period known as the Old Kingdom, its first era of monumental architecture
At Huaca Prieta, the earliest known farming community in South America, squash, gourds and chili are cultivated
The delicate seals of the Indus civilization are in a script as yet undeciphered
The first and largest of the three great pyramids at Giza is built for the pharaoh Khufu, later known to the Greeks as Cheops
The inhabitants of Huaca Prieta grow cotton, from which they weave a coarse cloth
The treasures found in the royal cemetery at Ur include a depiction of soldiers in copper helmets, armed with battleaxes
A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture
A superb passage grave is built at Newgrange in Ireland
Yarns of spun cotton survive at Mohenjo-daro, one of the two great cities of the Indus civilization
Some ninety royal servants, including soldiers, grooms and female musicians, are buried alive in the tomb of a royal couple at Ur
A boat of cedar planks, some 44 metres long, is buried at Giza
Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story, spreads in oral form
A stone pestle and mortar is made at the neolithic site of Merthyr Mawr, in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales
Harappa becomes one of the main cities of the Indus civilization
Trade lnks, probably by sea in Phoenician ships from Byblos, are established between Egypt and Phoenicia
The largest sculpture of the ancient world, a sphinx with the face of the pharaoh Khufu, is carved in situ at Giza
The ruling family of Ur plays a board game which appears to be the same as modern backgammon
At Stonehenge, constructed and altered over many centuries, the largest stones are put in place
To preserve bodies in perpetuity, the Egyptian ruling class develops the elaborate and lengthy process of mummifying an eviscerated corpse
