Invention of writing in Sumer

3500 BCAntediluvian Era

The facts

Dates	3500 BC
Era	Antediluvian Era
Source	Printed on the chart

Where this sits on the chart

Invention of writing in Sumer falls 504 years out from Creation at the centre, inside the Antediluvian Era arc. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.

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Who else was alive

Cainan3679 BC – 2769 BC Kenan3679 BC Mahalalel3609 BC – 2714 BC Jared3544 BC – 2582 BC Enoch3382 BC – 3017 BC Methuselah3317 BC – 2348 BC Lamech3130 BC – 2353 BC Beginnings of the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt3100 BC

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