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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 | |
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| c. 3100 BC |
| | The Egyptians paint murals on the walls of tombs, designed to help the occupants in the next world | |
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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 | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | A superb passage grave is built at Newgrange in Ireland | |
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| 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 | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story, spreads in oral form | |
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