Tombstone Epitaph

ANCIENT ART AND SCIENCE.
B. C. 1700. Metallic wire made by
some unknown process,
B. C. 290. The great brazen statue
of Rhodes built by Chares.
B. C. 202. Art of printing said to
have been invented in China
B. C. 721. The first recorded eclipse
of the moon observed: in Babylon.
B. C. 219. First mention of the art of
surgery: amputations performed.
B. C. 601. The first calculation and
prediction of a solar eclipse: by Thales
B. C. 634. The first record made of
astronomical observations; at Babylon.
B. C. 1130. The arts of spinning and
weaving invented by Noomah, a wom-
an.
B. C. 1490. The first pottery vessels
made; simultaneously in Greece and
Egypt.
B. C. 2100. The first known sculp-
tures and paintings were made; in
Egypt.
B. C. 2095. Surveying used in Egypt
in laying out canals. The Pyramids
begun.
B. C. 640. The Thalian theory of
the earth's spherical form taught; in
Greece.
B. C. 2122.
Athotes.an Egyptian
king. said to have invented hiero-
glyphics.
B.C. 1167. A mummy of about this
date was found to have teeth filled
with amalgam.
B.C. 1457. The first recorded use of
bricks and mortar.
Tower of Belus
built at Babylon
B. C. 195. Books with leaves like
those of modern times introduced in
Pergamus instead of the rolled parch-
ments,which were easily damaged.