Saturday, July 04, 2026

History Highlights

Археологические раскопки города Солница в Провадии

Europe’s Oldest Town May Have Been Built on Salt: The Story of Solnitsata

More than 6,000 years ago in Bulgaria, a fortified town grew rich boiling brine into salt, and may be the oldest town in Europe.

Stone schematic or rather violin-shaped anthropomorphic figurine. Late Neolithic II (4800-4500 BC) from Sesklo or rather Dimini. Archaeological Museum of Athens, inv. no. 5993. Marble schematic anthro

The Neolithic Village Built as a Set of Concentric Rings: The Story of Dimini

Nearly 6,000 years ago in Thessaly, a community built its home as a series of nested stone rings converging on a central hall.

Sesklo area near Volos, Greece

The Hill in Thessaly Where Europe First Built a Town: The Story of Sesklo

Nearly 9,000 years ago, farmers on a hill in central Greece built what may be the oldest town in Europe.

This is an illustration of what a longhouse in the Sannai Maruyama settlement would have looked like during the Jomon pe

A Village of Hunter-Gatherers That Lasted 1,500 Years: The Story of Sannai-Maruyama

In the far north of Japan, a people who never farmed in the usual sense built a village of thousands, raised towering timber pillars, made some of the world’s oldest

Moschee von Djenné Beschreibung: Die Moschee von Djenné Quelle: Foto von Klaus Kien, entstanden in den 90er Jahren im Ra

The Oldest City South of the Sahara, and It May Have Had No King: The Story of Jenné-jeno

On the floodplain of the Niger River in Mali stand the mounds of a city that rewrote the history of Africa, the oldest known urban center south of the Sahara,