27th century BC

The 27th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 2700 BC to 2601 BC.

Millennium:	3rd millennium BC
Centuries:	28th century BC 27th century BC 26th century BC
Timelines:	28th century BC 27th century BC 26th century BC
State leaders:	28th century BC 27th century BC 26th century BC
Decades:	2690s BC 2680s BC 2670s BC 2660s BC 2650s BC 2640s BC 2630s BC 2620s BC 2610s BC 2600s BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

Statuette of Imhotep in the Louvre. He is the first architect and physician whose name was recorded and has survived to modern times.

• c. 2750–2600 BC: Early Dynastic II Period in Mesopotamia.[1]
• c. 2700 BC: The beginning of statuary in Egypt, with shale and limestone statues of Khasekhemwy created in Nekhen.[2]
• c. 2740–2570 BC: Third Dynasty of Egypt, consisting of the reigns of Djoser, Sekhemkhet, Sanakht (Nebka), Khaba and Huni.
  • Imhotep, vizier and architect of Djoser, constructs the Pyramid of Djoser, Egypt's earliest stone edifice, in Saqqara.[3]
• c. 2670–2450 BC: Fourth Dynasty of Egypt.
  • c. 2670–2620 BC: The reign of the pharaoh Sneferu and his vizier Nefermaat. Sneferu leads a campaign in Nubia and returns with about 7,000 prisoners, who would be employed as servants in the royal estates. Sneferu then sends an expedition to Libya which brings back 11,000 prisoners and 13,100 heads of cattle.[2] Sneferu sends 40 ships to Byblos for the retrieval of cedar wood for the construction of ships.[4] Under Sneferu's reign and that of his son Khufu, copper mines and turquoise quarries are developed in Sinai. The tomb of Hetepheres I, wife of Sneferu and mother of Khufu, demonstrates that cabinetry and jewelry are well-developed.[5] A depiction of plowing painted in the tomb of Itet and Nefermaat in Meidum is the earliest testament to the technique in Africa.[6]
• c. 2650 BC: The supposed reign of the semi-legendary Sumerian king Gilgamesh.[7]
• c. 2650 BC: Abandonment of the Mature Harappan settlement at Kalibangan due to the drying-up of the Ghaggar River.

References

1. Roux, Georges (25 July 2015). La Mésopotamie. Essai d'histoire politique, économique et culturelle. Le Seuil. p. 115. ISBN 9782021291636.
2. Grimal, Nicolas (1988). Histoire de l'Égypte ancienne. Fayard. p. 451. ISBN 9782213640013.
3. Touaibia, Yasmina (2014). Égypte. De Boeck Superieur. p. 10. ISBN 9782804185305.
4. Pirenne, Jacques (1961). Histoire de la civilisation de l'Égypte ancienne. 1. La Baconniére. p. 182.
5. Magi, Giovanna (1970). L'Égypte, 7000 ans d'histoire. Casa Editrice Bonechi. p. 52. ISBN 9788847618688.
6. Dupuy, Christian (2015). "La traction animale en Égypte pendant les IIIe-IIe millénaires av J.-C. Araires, traîneaux, puis chariots et chars". SENOUY, Association dauphinoise d'égyptologie Champollion (14): 69–74.
7. F. Joannès and B. Lafont, Sumériens archaïques (rois), 2001, p. 802