The oldest known megaliths are part of the amazing Neolithic site Gobekli Tepe (Göbekli Tepe). The region is inhabited from c. 11,000 to...

Neolithic building societies arise as the last Ice Age ends c. 10,000 BCE. The end of the ice age leads to warming climates and...

Göbekli Tepe (Gobeki Tepe) is the oldest known group of cult buildings in the world, dating c. 9500 BCE. In central south Turkey near the...

Göbekli Tepe or Gobekli Tepe in today's Turkey is occupied between c. 9500 and c. 8000 BCE. People of the prehistoric settlement leave...

Mushdamma (Mushdam, Mušdam(m)a or Mušdam) is the Divine Architect of the Mesopotamian ancient world. His epithet šidim gal den-líl-lá-ke4...

A fascinating center of commerce in the Bronze Age, Byblos has been sporadically inhabited since c. 8800 BCE and continuously since 5000...

Girsu (Sumerian Ĝirsu) is a busy city of ancient Sumer, Mesopotamia, beginning c. 5300 BCE. Today, it's called Tell Telloh in Iraq. Tello...

The Danube River flows through nearly a dozen countries including modern day Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine....