The Ancient Near East and Bronze Age World

The Iron Age (c. 1200 BC - c. 550 BC) is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Copper Age and Bronze Age.

fl. late 27th century BC

Many scholarly estimates place him circa 1200 B.C.E.

Early Bronze Age (EBA or EB): 3300-2100 BC

The texts were written in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.

The Xia dynasty (, ; ) is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography. Some scholars, especially Western historians and Sinologists,

The problems began in Merneptah's 5th year (1208 BCE), when a Libu king invaded Egypt from the west in alliance with various northern peoples.

Infobox date: circa 2450 BC

Infobox date: circa 1250 BCE

Infobox date: c. 1753 BC; time interval--1753 ago

Infobox date: c. 2100 BC

Infobox date: circa 1245 BC

Infobox date: c. 1800 BC

Infobox date: circa 2250 BC in Sippar

Infobox date: c. 2000 BC

Infobox date: circa 1450 BC

The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BC.

Nefertiti (; c. 1370, c. 1330 BC) was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, the great royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.

Šuppiluliuma I (died c. 1322 BC), also Suppiluliuma () or Suppiluliumas (), was an ancient Hittite king (r. c. 1350-1322 BC).

The group originated from a prehistoric seaborne migration, known as the Austronesian expansion, from Taiwan, circa 3000 to 1500 BCE.

Tang of Shang, (c. 1670 BC to c. 1587 BC, born Zi Lü), recorded on oracle bones as Tai Yi or Da Yi, was the first king of the Shang dynasty.

In the oldest known version, dated to the Ur III period (c. 2112, c. 2004 BC) but probably based on Akkadian source material, the SKL reflected a more linear transition of power from Kish, the first city to receive kingship, to Akkad.

Sargon of Akkad (; Akkadian: 𒊬𒊒𒄀, romanized: Šarrugi; died c. 2279 BC), also known as Sargon the Great, was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC.

Hatshepsut ( haht-SHEPP-sut; c. 1505-1458 BC) was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling first as regent, then as queen regnant from c. 1479 BC until c. 1458 BC (Low Chronology) and the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II.