1500s BC
Centuries: 17th century BC - 16th century BC - 15th century BCDecades: 1550s BC 1540s BC 1530s BC 1520s BC 1510s BC - 1500s BC - 1490s BC 1480s BC 1470s BC 1460s BC 1450s BC
Events and Trends
- Stonehenge built in Wiltshire, England
- The element Mercury has been discovered in Egyptian tombs dating from this decade
- Settlers from Crete, Greece move to Miletus, Turkey
- Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize
- The Phoenicians develop an alphabet - see Timeline of communication technology
- Egypt conquers Nubia and the Levant (1504 BC - 1492 BC)
