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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The cemetery at Los Millares in Spain contains more than 100 beehive tombs | |
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| c. 1600 BC |
| | | A bull-fighting fresco in the palace of Knossos is linked with the island's cult of the bull | |
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| c. 1550 BC |
| | | Egyptian tombs include paintings of a kind to help the occupants in the next world, whether in the Book of the Dead or on the walls | |
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| c. 1525 BC |
| | | The eruption of a volcano, on the island of Thera, entombs and preserves houses with frescoes in the Minoan city of Akrotiri | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The temples of Karnak and Luxor, in ancient Thebes, introduce the massive stone architecture of column and lintel | |
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| c. 1450 BC |
| | | Rich Egyptian households have the latest luxury items, small bottles of coloured glass to hold cosmetics | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | The massive architecture of Mycenaean cities such as Tiryns is said in Greek legend to have been built by one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes | |
|  | Tiryns, Greece
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | The so-called Treasury of Atreus, at Mycenae, is the most spectacular of the beehive tombs of this period | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | China produces superb bronzes, in the ritual vessels for sacrifices to the ancestors | |
|  | Shang bronze
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| c. 1380 BC |
| | | The pharaoh Amenhotep III commissions the great temple to Amen-Re at Luxor | |
|  | Luxor, the Great Temple of Amun
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