Pre-Historic Cultures
German Aurignac Culture updated 07/2017 Germany
When homo sapiens moved into Europe around 50,000 years ago he started an "artistic revolution" and created the world's first human & animal figurines 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
Nebra Sky Disc - Aunjetitz Culture published 08/2019 Germany
Sensational discovery of a 3,600 year old bronze disc with precise image of night sky produced and found in Germany. This led to totally new view on little known Aunjetitz Culture
Poemmelte Cult Ring updated 04/2020 Germany
This Extraordinary site is 5,000 years old and has close connections to Stonehenge and Avery in England. With a diameter of 115 meters and various circles it is the most important cult 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 temple site with amazing monolithic circle structures and richly engraved huge "T" pillars possibly used for sky burials
Cayoenue Tepesi published 05/2021 Turkey
This early Neolithic town erected 12,000 years ago, is possibly one of the first to start metal working in the Near East
Catal Hoeyuek updated 05/2021 Turkey
Possibly the first proto-city erected 9,000 years ago and had up to 8,000 inhabitants. Hunter gatherer clans settled down here with first farming and shepherding
Hittite Capital Hattusa updated 09/2021 Turkey
The inventors of the first iron weapons became a powerful empire some 3,000 years ago but finally were overtaken by Assyria
Glauberg Celts published 11/2021 Germany
Celts are not a common tribal clan 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 fifteen years ago
Move "Out of Africa" updated 04/2012 Near East
First human emmigration of homo habilis out of Africa and what happened in the Near East
Natuf Culture updated 04/2012 Jordan Valley
"Neolithic Revolution" started 15,000 years ago. Where it all started with the change from hunter gatherers to farmers including first fauna and flora domestication and first settlements
Al Magar Civilisation updated 04/2012 Saudi Arabia
Big surprise discovery in Saudi Arabia in 2008 - domestication of horses happened here 4,500 years earlier than previously thought. About 9,000 years ago during the stone age
First Neolithic Settlements updated 04/2012 Jordan
Examples of first Neolithic settlements in the Near East. So far they are the oldest houses found
Megalithic Structures
European Megalithic Past published 10/2014 Portugal
Astonishing pre-historic monolith stone circles around Evora in Portugal are the oldest and largest in Europe
Stonehenge published 10/2019 Great Britain
It is not the largest nor the oldest megalithic cult ring but the most intriguing and most visited
Update: latest research show that monolith were not transported over hundreds of kilometers but come from a quarry in Malborough just 25 km away
Greater Stonehenge published 10/2019 Great Britain
It is a huge pre-historic landscape with many monuments including so-called Cursus, 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. This article will shed more light on these amazing Bronze Age stelae
Uplistsikhe published 01/2018 Georgia
Interesting rock carved city on the ancient Silk Road in the Caucasus region in Georgia
Rajajeel updated 04/2012 Saudi Arabia
50 groups of megalithic stone stelae 6,000 years old and erected 3,000 years before Stonehenge
Cairns, Tumuli & Tombs updated 04/2012 Saudi Arabia
Summary of neolithic burial rituals and structures starting 9,000 years ago
Desert Kites - Ancient Hunting Traps updated 11/2016 Saudi Arabia
Pre-historic huge stone built hunting traps in various funnel shapes plus coral like structures
Paleolithic Past - Structures 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. We shed some light on so-called mustatils, tails, keyholes, needles and wheels
Pre-historic Weapons & Stone Tools
Paleolithic Spears updated 04/2020 Germany
Sensational discovery of 300,000 year old wooden hunting spears used by homo heidelbergensis show that ancient men were far more sophisticated than previously assumed
Latest update: recently a two meter long forest elephant tusk was discovered, as well as bones of a sable teeth lion, first proof of his existence in the region
Pre-historic Tools & Weapons published 11/2019
Starting with first stone tools 2.5 million years old we show lances, catapults, bow & arrow, nets and hunting traps
Ice Man updated 01/2016 Italy
Sensational find in 1991 of a 5,300 year old mummified body high up in the Alps still surprises us with new results from ongoing research after 25 years