XXVIIe front century J. - C.

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Events

Mesopotamy

  • First royal inscriptions (acts of properties) mentioning Mebaragesi, king of Kish, discovered on a fragment of alabaster vase (beginning of the History sumérienne).
  • Reigns of Mebaragesi, then of his/her son Akka, last kings of Kish I.
  • Victoire of Mebaragesi on the Élam ites.
  • According to the tradition, the mythical king Gilgamesh would have built the ramparts of Uruk, attested by archeology.
  • the shelves Cunéiforme S gradually replace the traced characters. The writing becomes completely abstract.
  • Low relief élamite out of diorite “leading warrior of the prisoners”.
  • Palais has Kish, considered as the first attested royal palace.

  • -2660 : Akka, king of Kish, is overcome by Gilgamesh, king of Uruk.

  • -2650: Reign of Meskalamdug, king of Ur.

Egypt

  • Apogee of the Ancient Empire under the reigns, little known, of Kheops, Khéphren and Mykérinos.
  • -2638: Reign of Khoufou (Kheops in Greek), second Pharaon of the IV {{E}} dynasty (- 2638, - 2613).
    • Ankha-ha-EFF, vizier of Kheops
    • Hotep-young stags, wife of Kheops.
    • Forwarding of Kheops in the the Sinai.
    • Kheops makes build the large pyramid of Gizeh (146 m).
    • the solar worship of Re is essential.
    • Assertion of the divine filiation of the king: in the second part of the IV {{E}} dynasty, the royal titulature is fixed definitively with the appearance of a fifth royal name preceded by the Re wire title “”, the god sun of Héliopolis.
  • -2603 : Khâfrê (Khéphren in Greek), Pharaon (- 2603, - 2578).
    • Khéphren makes build a pyramid almost as large as that of his/her father Kheops (143 m).
  • Sphinx of Gizeh, monumental statue of the Pharaon Khéphren with a body of lion.

Europe

  • -2640 : The agricultural Community of Muldeberg (Seelande Western, Denmark), oldest known in Scandinavia.

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Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions

  • Development of the technique of the furrow in agriculture by the Age of the valley of Indus.
  • Development of the technique of the ploughing in Egypt, attested by the drawings in the tombs of this time.
  • Development of the cabinet work in Egypt.
  • In China, appearance of the first techniques of the weaving of silk. First objects of bronze.

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