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24th century BC

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ200563 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 24th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2400 BC to 2301 BC.

Events

c. 2900 BC–2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period continue.

c. 2400 BC–2000 BC: large painted jar with birds in the border made in the Indus River Valley civilization and is now at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2400 BC–There is archaeological evidence that the site of Assur was occupied at around this time.

c. 2360 BC: Hekla-4 eruption.

c. 2350 BC: The 2350 BC Middle East Anomaly (apparent comet or asteroid impact) happened.

c. 2350 BC: End of the Early Dynastic III period in Mesopotamia.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where 24th and century can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as century. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “24th century BC” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.