The creation of one of the oldest surviving astronomical documents, a copy of which was found in the
Babylonian library of
Ashurbanipal: a 21-year record of the appearances of
Venus (which the early Babylonians called Nindaranna).
c. 1600 BC – Kings and princes on the mainland
Greece have begun building large aboveground burial places commonly referred to as beehive tombs because of their rounded, conical shape.