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3000 B.C.

3000 BC – Gift of the Nile

early culture

Early Culture Existed for Centuries

Relief on the stele of Hammurabi. The king is standing before divinity, who is probably Shamash, the sun god, regarded as the law-giver.

Hammurabi – The First Law Code (1750 B. C.)

Boundary stone from Khafajan.

Hittites – A New Power Arises (1750 – 1450 B.C.)

Part of the crater on the island of Nea Kameni, in the Santorin lagoon. The first of the Kameni islands (Palaea Kameni) was formed by volcanic activity in the second century B.C. and subsequent activity has created Nea Kameni. These islands, on which the volcano is still active today, represent the aftermath of the great eruption of the fifteenth century B.C.

The Eruption of Santorin – (B.C. 1450)

Ship building in Egypt

Egypt Becomes an Imperial Power (1450 – 1400 B. C.)

Priest-king, or deity, from Mohenjo-daro, in the Indus Valley. The people of this pre-Aryan city were not the primitive barbarians of Aryan legend.

The Aryan Invasion of India (c. B. C. 1400)

Cune form tablet from Tell el Amarna

Palestine to Egypt – People Gain a National Identity and Settle New Lands (1400 – 1280 B.C.)

The parched desert lands of the Middle East recall the grim terrain crossed by the Israelites under Moses in the Exodus from Egypt. (The picture shows the cracked soil and sparse vegetation of the Negev, near the Dead Sea.)

Let My People Go! (Hebrews 1280 B.C.)

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