10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Neolithic - Danubian Civilization
The Danube Valley civilization is one of the oldest civilizations known in Europe. It existed from between 5,500 and 3,500 BC in the...
The Linear Pottery culture
The Linear Pottery culture is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic, flourishing circa 5500–4500 BC. It is abbreviated...
Vinča-Turdaș Culture | Old Europe
There are lost civilisations, and then there are forgotten civilisations. From the 6th to the 3rd millennium BC, the so-called “Vinca...
Burned House Horizon
In the archaeology of Neolithic Europe, the burned house horizon is the geographical extent of the phenomenon of intentionally burned...
The Hamangia Thinker and The Keops Standard 1500 years Before Pyramids
In 1956 in Cernavoda, Romania, near to the banks of the Danube, a strange neolithic statuette was discovered, dated to 4.000 – 3.500 BC....
The First High Culture in the World Originated in the Balkans, Europe
Old Europe: Danube Valley Civilization 5000 - 3500 BC. Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of...
New Research Says Blue Eyes Originated From A Single Ancient Ancestor
Artist’s impression of a blue-eyed hunter gatherer (Credit: PELOPANTON / CSIC) DNA taken from the wisdom tooth of a 7,000-year-old human...
White Skin Developed in Europe Only As Recently as 8,000 Years Ago Say Anthropologists
The myriad of skin tones and eye colors that humans express around the world are interesting and wonderful in their variety. Research...
Varna Gold
In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria stumbled upon a vast Copper Age necropolis from the 5th millennium BC containing the oldest...
The Lost World of Old Europe
The exhibition has been organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in collaboration with the...
