Pre-Historic Cultures
German Aurignac Culture updated 07/2017 Germany
When Homo Sapiens moved into Europe around 40,000 BP he started an artistic revolution and produced the world's first human & animal figures plus musical instruments
Lion Man Statue published 04/2021 Germany
It is the most amazing and oldest sculpture of mankind carved out of a mammoth ivory tusk and representing a mixed creature of a man with lion head
Aunjetitz Culture - Nebra Sky Disc published 08/2019 Germany
Sensational discovery of a 3,600 year old bronze disc with precise night sky image found in Germany. This led to a totally new view on the little known Aunjetitz Culture
Poemmelte Cult Ring updated 04/2020 Germany
This extraordinary site is 5,000 years old and has close connections to Stongehenge and Avery in England. With a diameter of 115 meters and various ring circles it is the most important ritual site in Germany
Goseck Sun Observatory published 11/2021 Germany
Possibly the oldest sun observatory in human history not in Egypt or Mesopotamia but in Germany!
Goebekli Tepe published 05/2021 Turkey
The world's first cult site with amazing monolithic structures and huge richly engraved "T" pillars possibly used for sky burials
Cayoenue published 05/2021 Turkey
This early Neolithic settlement dated 12,000 years ago, is possibly one of the first to start metal working in the Near East
Catal Hueyuek updated 05/2021 Turkey
This is possibliy the first proto-city erected 9,000 years ago and housed at its peak up to 8,000 inhabitants. Hunter gatherer clans settled down here with first farming and shepherding and became wealthy with obsidian long distance trading
Hittite Capital Hattusa updated 09/2021 Turkey
The inventors of first iron weapons became a powerful empire some 3.000 years ago but finally were overtaken by Assyria
Glauberg Celts published 11/2021 Germany
The Celts are not a common tribal group but various ethnic groups established a common cultural area across Europe 3,000 years ago. Glauberg became one of the most important sites when life size stone statues were unearthed here fifteen years ago
The Move "out of Africa" updated 04/2012
First Human Emmigration of homo habilis out of Africa and what happened in the Near East
Natuf Culture updated 04/2012
"Neolithic Revolution" around 15,000 years ago. Where it all started, the move from hunter & gatherers to farmers, including first fauna & flora domestication and first settlements
Al Magar Civilisation updated 04/2012 Saudi Arabia
Surprise discovery in Saudi Arabia in 2008, domestication of horses happened here 4,500 years earlier than previously thought, that means already 9,000 years ago during the Stone Age
First Neolithic Settlement updated 04/2012 Jordan
Examples of neolithic settlements in the Near East. So far they are the oldest houses found
Megalithic Structures
Our Megalithic Past published 10/2014 Portugal
Astonishing pre-historic monolith stone circles around Evora in Portugal are possibly the oldest and largest in Europe
Stonehenge published 10/2019 Great Britain
It is not the largest and not the oldest megalithic cult ring but the most intriguing and most visited
Update: latest research results show that the megalithic rocks were not transported over hundreds of kilometres but come from Malborough just 25 km away
Greater Stonehenge published 10/2019 Great Britain
It is a huge prehistoric landscape with many monuments including Curcus, Woodhenge, Bluehenge, Durrington Walls and Blick Mead
Mongolian Deer Stones published 05/2020 Mongolia
This little known steppe nomad tradition so far has been neglected. Our new article will shed more light on these amazing Bronze Age stelae
Uplistsikhe published 01/2018 Georgia
Interesting pre-historic rock carved city on the ancient "silk road" in the Kaukasus region in Georgia
Rajajeel updated 04/2012 Saudi Arabia
50 groups of 4 meter high megalithic stone monuments in Saudi Arabia 6,000 years old and therefore 3,000 years before Stonehenge
Cairns, Tumuli & Tombs updated 04/2012 Saudi Arabia
Summary of ancient buriel rituals and structures in the Near East starting 9,000 years ago
Kites - Ancient Hunting Traps updated 11/2016 Saudi Arabia
Pre-historic huge stone built hunting traps & herding structures in the Saudi & Jordan desert
Saudi Arabia's Paleolithic Past published 04/2021 Saudi Arabia
Little is known yet about the thousands of different stone structures erected by our ancestors over 10,000 years ago on the Arabian Peninsula. This article will shed some light on mustatils, wheels, tails, keyholes and wheels
Pre-historic Weapons & Stone Tools
Paleolithic Spears updated 04/2020 Germany
Sensational Discovery at Schöningen, 300,000 year old wooden hunting spears of our predecessor homo heidelbergensis give proof that ancient men was far more sophisticated than previously assumed, our history books need to be re-written now!
Latest Update : recently a two meter long forest elephant tusk was found, as well as bones of a sable teeth lion = first proof of his existence in the area!
Prehistoric Tools & Weapons published 11/2019
Starting with the first stone tools 2.5 million years ago we show lances, catapults, bow & arrow, nets and hunting traps
The Ice Man updated 01/2016 Italy
A sensational find of a 5,300 year old mummified body high up in the Alps in 1991 still surprises us with new results from ongoing research after 25 years