1350s BC

Communication

A wooden torso left in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen (Egypt) at this time is the earliest known clothing dummy and the ancestor of the fashion mannequin.

Tree-ring dating shows that a large platform constructed of oak in the shallow waters of Flag Fen (near Peterborough, England) is built about this time. The platform is built on an artificial island and surrounded with a boardwalk. At one end, bronze tools appear to have been thrown into the fen as sacrifices. Although the purpose of the platform is not certain, it is thought that it guarded access to land claimed by the builders for farming.

Pots of perfume sealed in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen in 1352 bce are still fragrant when opened in 1922, the product of the powerful perfume industry in Egypt. See also 2000 bce Materials.

A freighter loaded with 10 tons of copper in more than 350 ingots, as well as tin, a ton of resins used in making perfume, blue glass disks, and scrap gold and silver, as well as miscellaneous treasures, such as hippopotamus teeth, amber, tortoise shells, and ostrich eggs, is wrecked at what we now call Ulu Buron on the south coast of Asia Minor (near Kas, Turkey). See also 1982 ce Archaeology.

Millennium:	2nd millennium BC
Centuries:	15th century BC – 14th century BC – 13th century BC
Decades:	1380s BC 1370s BC 1360s BC – 1350s BC – 1340s BC 1330s BC 1320s BC
Years:	1359 BC 1358 BC 1357 BC 1356 BC 1355 BC 1354 BC 1353 BC 1352 BC 1351 BC 1350 BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths – Architecture Establishments – Disestablishments

Events and trends

• 1350 BC—Yin becomes the new capital of the Shang dynasty.
• 1352 BC—Amenhotep III (18th dynasty) dies.
• c. 1352 BC—Amenhotep IV starts to rule.
• c. 1352 BC—Amarna period in Ancient Egypt starts.

Significant people

A tomb painting depicting musicians, painted in Thebes, Egypt approximately 1350 BC

• 1352 BC—Pharaoh Amenhotep IV Akhenaton rises to the throne of Egypt, which begins the 18th dynasty.

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