Events

Ceremonial temple butcher knife made of flint, with the Horus name of the pharaoh Djer inscribed on its gold handle. On display at the Royal Ontario Museum

• Before 3000 BC: Image of a deity, detail from a cong recovered from Tomb 12, Fanshan, Yuyao, Zhejiang, is made. Neolithic period. Liangzhu culture. It is now kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou.

• 3000 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in the Indus Valley

• c. 3000 BC: Neolithic period ends

• 3000 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of united Egypt, starts to reign

• 3000 BC: Caral, the first city in the Americas, starts to be built.

• c. 3000 BC: Troy is founded

• c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version, it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts. (National Geographic, June 2008).

• 3000 BC – 2350 BC: Scarlet Ware vase, from Tutub (modern Tell Khafajeh, Iraq) is made, it is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad

• 3000 BC – 2000 BC: World population about 30 million.

• c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization starts

• c. 3000 BC: Minoan civilization starts

• c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts

• c. 3000 BC: The Angono Petroglyphs are carved in the Philippines.

• c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts.

• c. 3000 BC: Middle Jōmon period starts in Japan.

• c. 2955 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, dies

• c. 2950 BC: first definitive use of a Nebty name by Egyptian First Dynasty pharaoh, Semerkhet.

• 2925 BC – 2776 BC: First Dynasty wars in Egypt.

• c. 2920 BC: Djet, third pharaoh of Egypt.

• 2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Mesopotamia.

Significant persons

• Djer, Djet, Den, Anedjib, Semerkhet—Pharaohs of the First dynasty of Egypt.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• 3000 BC–2000 BC; Hieroglyphic writing in Egypt, potter's wheel in China, first pottery in the Americas (in Ecuador).

• c. 3000 BC—Sumerians establish cities.

• 3000 BC—Sumerians start to work in various metals.

• c. 3000 BC—Knowledge of Ancient Near Eastern grains appears in Ancient China.

• The shekal was introduced in Mesopotamia as a monetary and weight unit; see ancient weights and measures, Shekel.

Fiction

• ~5,000 years ago: Setting for Dawn of Empire by Sam Barone (the Eskkar Saga book 1)

• 3157 BC: Setting for Empire Rising by Sam Barone (the Eskkar Saga book 2)

• In the TV show, Stargate: SG-1, the native people of Earth successfully rebel against the Goa'uld in 2995 B.C.

• 3000 BC: A zombie outbreak in Egypt in The Zombie Survival Guide

Decades and years