settlements, most famously Shanidar Cave. Nineveh itself was founded as early as 6000 BC during the late Neolithic period. Deep sounding at Nineveh uncovered soil...

36,000–18,000 Zarzian culture c. 20,000–10,000 Shulaveri–Shomu culture c. 6000–5000 Zayandeh River Culture c. 6th millennium Dalma culture c. 5th millennium...

B (8700–6800 BC) Jarmo (7500–5000 BC) Hassuna (~6000 BC) Samarra (~5700–4900 BC) Halaf cultures (~6000–5300 BC) Ubaid period (~6500–4000 BC) Uruk period...

Louvre Museum Calcite tripod vase, mid-Euphrates, probably from Tell Buqras, 6000 BC, Louvre Museum AO 31551. The northern Mesopotamian sites of Tell Hassuna...

Hartwig (2010). Egypt: The World of the Pharaohs. H.f.ullmann. ISBN 978-3-8331-6000-4. Wilkinson 1999, pp. 69–70. W. M. Flinders Petrie: The Royal Tombs of the...

Puzur-Ashur II left inscriptions regarding the building of temples to Ashur, Adad and Ishtar in Assyria. Ilushuma in particular appears to have been a powerful...

36,000–18,000 Zarzian culture c. 20,000–10,000 Shulaveri–Shomu culture c. 6000–5000 Zayandeh River Culture c. 6th millennium Dalma culture c. 5th millennium...

Predynastic Period 6000–3000 BC...

Gerzeh culture, A-Group culture, C-Group culture, Kerma culture West Asia (6000–3500 BC) Ghassulian culture, Uruk period Europe (5500–2200 BC) Metallurgy...

Predynastic Period 6000–3000 BC...