Mythology Timeline

Earliest Egyptian Myths Recorded.

Hathor, known as Mistress of Dendera, cult center flourishes in the city of Dendera.

Osiris as Dying and Reviving God and God of the Dead appears in Pyramid Texts.

Life of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, and world's first author known by name.

The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh written on clay tablets.

Written form of the Atrahasis Myth of the Great Flood.

The Myth of Adapa appears in written form.

Extant copy of the Sumerian Enuma Elish (creation story) is made from much older text.

Mahabharata likely composed.

Homer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey.

The legendary founding date of Rome.

Greek poet Hesiod writes his Theogony and Works and Days.

Biblical Book of Genesis revised, along with other Hebrew scripture, during the Second Temple Period.

Roman tale of mythical twins Romulus and Remus first recorded.

Bhagavad Gita likely written down from earlier oral tradition.

Roman poet Virgil writes his Aeneid.

The tales of the life and work of Jesus (gospels) composed.

The Kojiki is written, a collection of oral myths forming the basis of the Shinto religion.

The Nihon Shoki is written, a collection of oral myths forming the basis of the Shinto religion.

Imibe-no-Hironari writes the Kogoshui, a collection of oral myths forming the basis of the Shinto religion.