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29th century BC

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ174679 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 29th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC.

Events

c. 2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Sumer.

c. 2900 BC: 2600 BC: Votive statues from the Square Temple of Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) were made. One of them is now in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Excavated 1932–1933.

c. 2900 BC: 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms.

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

2900 BC: First Mariote Kingdom founded.

2890 BC: Ancient Egypt: Pharaoh Qa'a died. End of First Dynasty, start of Second Dynasty. Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy started to rule.

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“29th century BC” enters the record as century. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 29th and century can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 1933—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 29th and century.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q174679. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1932 and 1933.

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This entry incorporates text from “29th 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.