CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF DOCUMENTS DISCUSSED
In more than one case the dates assigned below can be only very approximate; for example, since the Akhmim papyrus is probably not earlier than 600, nor later than 900, the year half way between these years has been given. When printed sources gave no dates the leading living authorities were consulted for determining them. An attempt has been made to adjust to recent scholarship the dates in printed sources.
| Approximate Dates B. C. | Documents | Locations |
| 3500 | Hierakonopolis mace (hieroglyphic) | Oxford |
| 2200 | Babylonian tablet 10201 from Nippur[1] (?) (cuneiform) Philadelphia | |
| 2200 | Tello tablet survey (cuneiform) | Constantinople |
| 2150 | Babylonian tablet 12648 from Nippur (?) (cuneiform) | Philadelphia |
| 2070 | Babylonian tablets (25) from Nippur (?) (cuneiform) | Philadelphia |
| 2000 | Akkadian clay tablet (cuneiform) | Berlin (?) |
| 2000 | Akhmim tablets 25367, 25368 (hieratic) | Cairo |
| 2000 | Geometrical tablet 15285 (cuneiform) | London |
| 2000 | Mathematical tablets 85194, 85210 (cuneiform) | London |
| 1900 | Babylonian tablet CBS 8536 (cuneiform) | Philadelphia |
| 1900 | Book of the Dead, Introduction to Section 99, Berlin 9 and Cairo 28023 (hieratic) | Berlin and Cairo |
| 1900 | Kahun counting stick 372-59 (hieroglyphic) | London |
| 1850 | Golenishchev mathematical papyrus (hieratic) | Moscow |
| 1850 | Kahun papyri (hieratic) | London |
| 1850 | Thebes papyrus 6619 (hieratic) | Berlin |
| 1800 | Babylonian tablet 19797 from Nippur[2] (?) (cuneiform) Philadelphia | |
| 1700 | Bulak papyrus 11, 18 (hieratic) | Cairo |
| 1650 | Leather roll 10250[3] (hieratic) | London |
| 1650 | Rhind mathematical papyrus 10057, 10058 (hieratic) | London |
| 1650 | Rhind papyrus fragments 265 to go between 10057, 10058, above (hieratic) | New York |
| 1650 | Tablet 7798 (hieroglyphic) | Berlin |
| 1465 | Papyri 9784, 9785 (hieratic) | Berlin |
