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Aurignacian Sites
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Aurignacian Sites

Map showing sites and presence associated with the Aurignacian culture, usually attributed to the first modern humans who arrived in Europe around 45,000 years ago.
Great Trek Relief Sculpture
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Great Trek Relief Sculpture

A detail of a relief sculpture by Peter Kirchhoff depicting the Great Trek of the 1830s, when Boers in Southern Africa migrated northwards away from British-controlled territory in order ot establish new independent settlements...
Tabun Cave
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Tabun Cave

Tabun Cave in Israel, which is associated with (among others) Neanderthal remains and tools.
Denisova Cave
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Denisova Cave

Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains in Siberia, Russia. It is well known for human occupation stretching back as far as 280,000 years ago and shows signs of occupation by Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and Denisovans. All currently...
Bronze Age Collapse
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Bronze Age Collapse

The Bronze Age Collapse (also known as Late Bronze Age Collapse) is a modern-day term referring to the decline and fall of major Mediterranean civilizations during the 13th-12th centuries BCE. The precise cause of the Bronze...
Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greece

Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, known in Greek as Hellas or Ellada, and consisting of a mainland and an archipelago of islands. Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle...
Ancient India
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Ancient India

India is a country in South Asia whose name comes from the Indus River. The name 'Bharata' is used as a designation for the country in their constitution referencing the ancient mythological emperor, Bharata, whose story is told...
Predynastic Period in Egypt
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Predynastic Period in Egypt - The Time Before History Began

The Predynastic Period in ancient Egypt is the time before recorded history, from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic Age and on to the rise of the First Dynasty, and is generally recognized as spanning...
Greek Dark Age
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Greek Dark Age

The Greek Dark Age (c. 1200 to c. 800 BCE, overlapping with the Iron Age, c. 1200-550 BCE) is the modern-day term for the period in Greek history following the Bronze Age Collapse when the Mycenaean Civilization fell and the Linear...
Europe
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Europe

Europe is a continent forming the westernmost part of the land mass of Eurasia and comprised of 49 sovereign states. Its name may come from the Greek myth of Europa, but human habitation of the region predates that tale, going back over...
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