20th century BC

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	21st century BC 20th century BC 19th century BC
Timelines:	21st century BC 20th century BC 19th century BC
Decades:	1990s BC 1980s BC 1970s BC 1960s BC 1950s BC 1940s BC 1930s BC 1920s BC 1910s BC 1900s BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

The 20th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC.

Events

The pyramid ruin of Amenemhet I at Lisht. He was the founder of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt

2000 BC:

c. 2000 BC:

First of the Minoan palaces on Crete.
Site of palace complex Knossos started to become occupied.
Decline of Harappan civilization began.
Bronze Age began in north Ancient China.
The Harappa Torso was sculpted by a member of the Indus Valley culture.^[1]
Middle Jōmon period ended in Japan.
Vessel, from Asahi Mound, Toyama Prefecture, was made. Jōmon period. It is now kept at Collection of Tokyo University.
Dogū, from Kurokoma, Yamanashi Prefecture, was made. Jōmon period. It is now kept at Tokyo National Museum.

c. 2000 BC - 1900 BC: the "Priest-king torso" was sculpted at Mohenjo-Daro, part of the Indus Valley civilization.^[2]
c. 2000 BC - The last wooly mammoth goes extinct on Wrangel island.

1991 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Mentuhotep IV died. End of Eleventh Dynasty. Pharaoh Amenemhat I started to rule. Start of Twelfth Dynasty.

c. 1985 BC – 1795 BC:

Rock-cut tombs at Beni Hasan were made. Twelfth Dynasty.
"Hippopotamus", from the tomb of Senbi (governor) (Tomb B.3) at Meir was made. Twelfth Dynasty. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

February 27, 1953 BC: A very close alignment of the naked-eye planets took place in which these planets are together in a span of 4.3 degrees.

c. 1942 BC: The so-called king of Leubingen (today part of Sömmerda) was buried in a large barrow within a 66-foot-wide (20 m) stone cairn inside a ring ditch.

c. 1928 BC – 1895 BC: "Harvest scene", tempera facsimile by Nina de Garis Davies of wall painting in the tomb of Khnumhotep II, Beni Hasan. Twelfth Dynasty.

↑ The Harappa Torso is now kept at the National Museum in New Delhi, India.
↑ The "Priest-king torso" is now kept at the National Museum of Pakistan, in Karachi.
↑ Watson, Traci (22 January 2013). "Earliest Evidence of Chocolate in North America". Science. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

20th century BC
22nd century BC ← 21st century BC ← ↔ → 19th century BC → 18th century BC

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