1st millennium BC

The 1st millennium BC was the last millennium before the Common Era. It started on January 1, 1000 BC, and ended on December 31, 1 BC. There was no year 0 and no year 0 BC.

Millennia:	2nd millennium BC · 1st millennium BC · 1st millennium AD
Centuries:	10th century BC · 9th century BC · 8th century BC · 7th century BC · 6th century BC · 5th century BC · 4th century BC · 3rd century BC · 2nd century BC · 1st century BC

1st Millennium BC Media

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  Map of the Eastern Hemisphere in 1000 BC.

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  Map of the world in 1 AD, just after the end of the 1st millennium BC.

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  Relief of King Ashurbanipal of Assyria hunting a Mesopotamian lion, from the Northern Palace in Nineveh, c. 645-635 BC

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  Map of the world in 323 BC

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  Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of the Roman Empire

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  Scythian gold plaque with panther (late 7th century BC)

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  The Parthenon, Athens (5th century BC)

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  "The Wrestler", an Olmec era statuette, dated roughly 1400–400 BC

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  Lamassu facing forward. Bas-relief from the king Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 713–716 BC. From Paul-Émile Botta's excavations in 1843–1844.