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| 612 BC |
| | | The Medes and the Babylonians destroy Nineveh and bring to an end the power of Assyria | |
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| 612 BC |
| | | The Babylonians defeat an Egyptian army at Carchemish, but do not press on into Egypt | |
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| 605 BC |
| | | Nebuchadnezzar comes to the throne of Babylon, beginning a prosperous reign of more than forty years | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | The choros, originally danced in a circle by temple virgins, is the centrepiece of the developing Greek theatre | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | An Olmec sculptor creates the piece known today as the Wrestler | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | Frenzied dances, in honour of the god Dionysus, become part of Greek theatre - deriving probably from the northeast, in Thrace | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | Isis, who is able to restore her husband Osiris after he has been chopped into pieces, becomes one of the most popular deities in Egypt | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | Phoenicians sail round the Cape of Good Hope and bring back the surprising news that the sun was seen to the north of them | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | The swirling decorative lines of Celtic metalwork at Hallstatt begin a tradition which lives on in illuminated manuscripts and stone Celtic crosses | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | The poems of the Shi Jing, China's earliest work of literature, are gathered together | |
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