page_title: 29th century BC
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 29th century BC / Events
caption_attribution_description: The Pinus longaeva grove in which the Prometheus tree grew. Prometheus was the oldest extant tree when felled in 1964. The photo shows the Wheeler Peak headwall in the distance.
context_page_description: The 29th century BC is a century which was from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC.
context_section_description: c. 2900 BC – 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms.
  2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
  c. 2900 BC – 2600 BC: Votive statues, from the Square Temple, Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) was made. It is now in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Excavated 1932–1933.
  2897 BC: Hùng Vương established the Hồng Bàng Dynasty in Vietnam (then known as Văn Lang).
  2890 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Qa'a died. End of First Dynasty, start of Second Dynasty. Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy started to rule.
  2880 BC: Estimated germination of the Prometheus Tree
  c. 2874 B.C.: The 365-day calendar year was started in ancient Egypt, with fixed lunar months of 30 days + 5 epagomenal days.
  2852 BC: The beginning of the period of the Three August Ones and Five Emperors in China.
  2832 BC: Estimated germination of the Methuselah Tree, the oldest known living organism
  2807 BC: Possible date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based on flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and Fenambosy Chevron.
  Ur becomes one of the richest cities in Sumer
caption: The grove in which the Prometheus Tree grew, with the Wheeler Peak headwall in the distance.
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