• BC the Pyramid of Khufu, the oldest and largest of the three great pyramids in the Giza Necropolis, is completed c. 2532 BC the Pyramid of Khafre, in...
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  • Centuries in architecture 28th century BC 27th century BC 26th century BC Decades in architecture 90s 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s 10s 00s Centuries 28th...
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    Sneferu (category 26th-century BC pharaohs)
    2600 BC) was an ancient Egyptian monarch and the first pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, during the earlier half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century...
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    Stonehenge (category Buildings and structures completed in the 26th century BC)
    constructed in several phases beginning about 3100 BC and continuing until about 1600 BC. The famous circle of large sarsen stones were placed between 2600 BC and...
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  • 27th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2700 BC to 2601 BC. c. 2750–2600 BC: Early Dynastic II Period in Mesopotamia. c. 2700 BC: The...
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  • approximately 315,000 years ago in Africa to the invention of writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC. Prehistory covers the...
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  • (26th to 31st Dynasties; 7th century BC to 332 BC) History of Persian Egypt (525 BC to 332 BC) - see also Achaemenid Empire Greco-Roman Egypt (332 BC to...
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    Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until...
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    Polychrome (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    decorating architectural elements, sculpture, etc., in a variety of colors." The term is used to refer to certain styles of architecture, pottery, or...
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  • f. c. 19th century-17th century BC High Steward of the early Thirteenth Dynasty Aahotepre Pharaoh 14th dynasty (fl. c. mid-17th century BC) Pharaoh of...
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    the late phase of predynastic Egypt. By the Old Kingdom (26th century BC to 22nd century BC), literary works included funerary texts, epistles and letters...
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    Imhotep (category 26th-century BC deaths)
    (/ɪmˈhoʊtɛp/; Ancient Egyptian: ỉỉ-m-ḥtp "(the one who) comes in peace"; fl. late 27th century BC) was an Egyptian chancellor to the King Djoser, possible...
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  • Napata (category Populated places disestablished in the 1st century BC)
    the 650s to 590 BC. Its economy was essentially based on gold, with 26th dynasty Egypt an important economic ally. Napatan architecture, paintings, writing...
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  • Classical Sumerian (literary language of Sumer, c. 26th to 23rd centuries BC) Sumerograms were used in Cuneiform even for non-Sumerian texts until the writing...
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    Ur (category Populated places established in the 4th millennium BC)
    Nasiriyah in modern-day Iraq. The city dates from the Ubaid period c. 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a city-state from the 26th century BC, its...
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    Pharaoh Psammetichus I of the 26th Dynasty. He ruled for thirty years and was succeeded as tyrant by his son Periander in 627 BC. The treasury that Cypselus...
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    Tomb of Meresankh III (category Buildings and structures completed in the 26th century BC)
    The Tomb of Meresankh III is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Eastern Cemetery of the Giza Necropolis. It housed the burial of Meresankh III, queen and...
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    Pyramid of Menkaure (category Buildings and structures completed in the 26th century BC)
    has not been accurately defined, but it was probably completed in the 26th century BC.[citation needed] It is a few hundred meters southwest of its larger...
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    Pella (category Populated places established in the 4th century BC)
    of the 4th century BC by Archelaus I as the new capital of Macedon, supplanting Aigai. The city was the birthplace of Philip II in 382 BC, and of Alexander...
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    Meskalamdug, possible founder of the First Dynasty of Ur, 26th century BC. Votive figure; 2600–2350 BC; stone; height: 41.3 cm, width: 14.5 cm, depth: 13.5 cm;...
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    Mari, Syria (category States and territories disestablished in the 18th century BC)
    first abandoned in the middle of the 26th century BC but was rebuilt and became the capital of a hegemonic East Semitic state before 2500 BC. This second...
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  • Statue of Metjen (category 26th-century BC works)
    of the Third Dynasty and the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty (around 2600 BC). The statue is made of granite and about 47 cm high. It is datable under...
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    France (redirect from Environment in France)
    5th and 3rd century BC. Around 390 BC, the Gallic chieftain Brennus and his troops made their way to Roman Italy, defeated the Romans in the Battle of...
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    Augustus (category 1st-century BC monarchs in Europe)
    Century. Octavian was born into an equestrian branch of the plebeian gens Octavia. His maternal great-uncle Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC,...
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    in 860 BC, and by the 6th century BC it was replaced by the Satrapy of Armenia. The Kingdom of Armenia reached its height under Tigranes the Great in...
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    Caral (category 27th-century BC establishments)
    500 years ago. Caral was inhabited between approximately 26th century BC and 20th century BC, and the site includes an area of more than 60 hectares (150...
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