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Lepenski Vir
Lepenski Vir (Serbian Cyrillic: Лепенски Вир, “Lepena Whirlpool”) is an ancient settlement on the banks of the Danube in eastern Serbia; more precisely, in Boljetin village, near Donji Milanovac. The site shows evidence of a culture which...
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Map of India in the Vedic Age, 1500 BCE-500 BCE - Indo-Aryan Cultures in Northern India
The Vedic Age (c. 1500-500 BCE) marks a formative period in the history of the northern Indian subcontinent, bridging the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization (c. 1300 BCE) and the emergence of early states in the Gangetic plain. During...
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Map of the Iron Age La Tène Culture c.400 BCE - c.50 CE
This map illustrates the extent of the La Tène culture, a key phase of the European Iron Age that flourished from around 450 BCE until the Roman conquests in the 1st century BCE. It highlights the widespread influence of early Celtic societies...
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Stone Age Tools (Modern Recreations)
A collection of modern recreations of Stone Age tools. The picture above shows (from top right to bottom left): - A hatchet with a wing spar, used for felling trees - A straight hatchet for shortening smaller pieces of wood (with a piece...
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Stone Age Tools Made From Antlers
Modern recreations of Stone Age tools: knives, arrows, hatchets, axes, and daggers, made of deer antlers.
Pile-Dwelling Museum in Unteruhldingen at Lake Constance, Germany.
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Bronze Age Greek chariot (From the Novel "The Jericho River")
An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing a Bronze Age Greek chariot.
From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.
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Ice Age Drawing of a Bison
Ice Age drawing of a bison, on limestone, about 13,000-14,000 years old. Found in Montastruc, France. Over, 100,000 years ago the first fully modern humans in southern Africa began to create works of art. These people then migrated to...
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Map of Trade Networks of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean - Empires, Merchants, and Maritime Routes of the Ancient World
The Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean (c. 1500–1200 BCE) was marked by an unprecedented level of diplomatic and commercial interdependence among regional powers. Great kingdoms, including New Kingdom Egypt (c. 1550–1077 BCE), the Hittite...
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Moon Idol from Central European Bronze Age
Clay figurine found in Chorvátsky Grob, Late Bronze Age. Slovak National Museum, Bratislava. Moon idols (Mondidole), also known as 'firedogs' (Feuerböcke), were clay figurines shaped like a dog or wolf, whose elongated, backward bending...
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Some Active Trade Routes in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
A map detailing some of the active maritime trade routes in the Aegean during the Middle and Late Bronze Age.
