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c. 4000 BC
A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Île Longue off the southern coast of Brittany
c. 3100 BC
The Egyptians paint murals on the walls of tombs, designed to help the occupants in the next world
Fragment of painted wall relief, c.1850 BC
British Museum
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c. 2500 BC
The first and largest of the three great pyramids at Giza is built for the pharaoh Khufu, later known to the Greeks as Cheops
Great Pyramid
Photograph Josceline Dimbleby
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c. 2500 BC
A superb passage grave is built at Newgrange in Ireland
c. 2500 BC
Some ninety royal servants, including soldiers, grooms and female musicians, are buried alive in the tomb of a royal couple at Ur
c. 2500 BC
Enuma Elish
, the Babylonian creation story, spreads in oral form
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