A wooden causeway in England has been dated to the very year: 3807 or 3806 BC. Tree rings show the Sweet Track across a marsh was laid 1,250 years before the Great Pyramid, and was used for only about ten years.

3807 BC · 2560 BC · apart: 1247 years

◍ Show on the globe

The event

• Great Pyramid of Gizac. 2560 BC · Giza. The Great Pyramid, built for Pharaoh Khufu at Giza, rose about 146 metres high. It remained the tallest human-made structure for nearly four millennia and is the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World.

Prehistory · 26th century BC

More amazing facts

• 4100 BC · 2560 BC The oldest known winery is some 1,500 years older than the Great Pyramid.
• 3600 BC · 2670 BC Malta's Ġgantija temples are older than Egypt's pyramids, and locals said a giantess built them.
• 3500 BC The world's oldest leather shoe is 5,500 years old — and roughly a European size 37.
• 3500 BC Przewalski's horse, 'the last wild horse', may not be wild at all. Genetics links it to the horses of Kazakhstan's Botai culture, kept by people 5,500 years ago, so it is probably feral.
• 3500 BC · 2560 BC People in Kazakhstan were drinking mare's milk almost a thousand years before the Great Pyramid.
• 3500 BC The first known zoo appeared in Egypt before the pharaohs.

All amazing facts (1058) →