| Mesopotamia | Egypt | Israel / Palestine | |
| 3500-3100 BCE | Uruk | ||
| 3100-2900 BCE | Jemdet-Nasr | 3100-2686 Early Dynastic | 3150-2200 Early Bronze |
| 2900-2700 BCE | Early Dynastic I | ||
| 2700-2500 BCE | Early Dynastic II | ||
| 2500-2300 BCE | Early Dynastic III | 2686-2200 Old Kingdom | |
| 2300-2150 BCE | Sardonic/Akkadian | ||
| 2150-2100 BCE | Guti | 2200-2040 1st Intermediate | |
| 2100-2000 BCE | Ur III | 2040-1786 Middle Kingdom | |
| 2000-1600 BCE 2000-1700 BCE |
Old Babylonian Old Assyrian |
2000-1200 Middle Bronze II | |
| 1600-1500 BCE | Dark Age | 1786-1558 2nd Intermediate |
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| 1600-1050 BCE | Kassite/Middle Babylonian | 1558-1085 New Kingdom | 1100 “Conquest” |
| 1400-1000 BCE | Middle Assyrian | ||
| 1000-626 BCE | Neo-Assyrian | 1050-925 United Kingdom | |
| 625-539 BCE | Neo-Babylonian | 586 Exile | |
| 539-330 BCE | Persian/Achaemenid | 539 Return | |
| 330-65 BCE | Alexander and Seleucid successors | ||
| 250 BCE – 230 CE | Parthians (Arsacid) | ||
| 230-650 CE | Sassanian | ||
| 650 CE – present | Arab / Islamic |