Civilisations
Major ancient cultures
Their sites, religion, technology, writing and living discovery graph.
Ancient Egypt
c. 3100 BCE – 30 CE
20
Nile Valley, North Africa
Pre-Pottery Neolithic
c. 10000–6000 BCE
17
Levant and Anatolia
Indus Valley
c. 3300–1300 BCE
12
Northwest South Asia (Pakistan, India)
Norse
c. 793–1066 CE
11
Scandinavia and the North Atlantic
Babylonian
c. 1894–539 BCE
10
Central Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Maya
c. 2000 BCE – 1697 CE
6
Mesoamerica (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize)
Khmer
c. 802–1431 CE
5
Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam)
Nabataean
c. 300 BCE – 106 CE
0
Levant and northern Arabia
Sumerian
c. 4500–1900 BCE
0
Southern Mesopotamia (Iraq)
Inca
c. 1438–1533 CE
0
Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile)