If you study Viking history you have been told that the Vikings were the first people to settle the Faroe Islands. Now scientists have found evidence of an earlier culture that predates the Vikings’ arrival by as much as 3-500 ….
Year: 2013
8,000 years ago (Circa. 6,000 BCE) one or more groups of farmers left Asia Minor and colonized what is now Greece. We don’t yet know how they arrived there or why they left their homes but they probably walked across ….
Our picture of the ancient world co-inhabited by Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis, and Homo denisova is constantly changing as new information emerges from scattered scientific studies. The origins of modern humanity were once thought to be very clear: supposedly our ….
You won’t find many historians pointing to Kazakhstan as an important region in human history but closer inspection of prehistoric and historical peoples who lived in the area reveals some interesting patterns. For a long time anthropologists believed Kazakhstan might ….