page_title: 24th century BC
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 24th century BC / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: This map is a provisional outline of the Indus Civilization based on online sources. It is the best GFDL map we have so far, but it should be redrawn with greater accuracy and proper source attribution. The main source of the present map is a scan of some unidentified publication, [1]. Better maps: Britannica The Indus Civilization Exhibition at Tokyo and Nagoya Harappa Archaeological Research Project, hosted on a Catalan University website
context_page_description: The 24th century BC is a century which was from the year 2400 BC to 2301 BC.
context_section_description: c. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period continue.
  c. 2360 BC: Hekla-4 eruption.
  c. 2400 BC: 2000 BC- Large painted jar with birds in the border (Indus valley civilization) now at the Boston Art Museum.
  c. 2350 BC: End of the Early Dynastic III period in Mesopotamia.
  c. 2350 BC: First destruction of the city of Mari.
  c. 2345 BC: End of Fifth Dynasty. Pharaoh Unas died.
  c. 2345 BC: Sixth dynasty of Egypt starts (other date is 2460 BC).
  c. 2340 BC – 2180 BC: Akkadian Empire.
  c. 2334 BC – 2279 BC: Semitic chieftain Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Sumer and Mesopotamia.
  City of Lothal founded under the Indus valley civilization.
caption: Extent and major sites of the Indus Valley Civilization.
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