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Info on popular culture and everyday life
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Info on popular culture and everyday life
On two small Mediterranean islands stand the oldest free-standing stone monuments on Earth. Malta’s megalithic temples were built around 3600 BC — a thousand years before the pyramids — by farmers, not giants.
By firelight in the deep dark, Ice Age people painted horses, lions and bison on cave walls up to 36,000 years ago. These are some of the oldest artworks ever made — and they are astonishingly alive.
People have lived at Jericho for around 11,000 years without a break. It holds the oldest known town wall and tower on Earth, and some of humanity’s first portraits — the haunting plastered skulls of its Neolithic dead.
Older than the pyramids and Stonehenge, this Irish passage tomb was built so that on the winter solstice, the rising sun pours down a stone passage and lights its hidden chamber. Inside the wonder of Newgrange.
In central Turkey, thousands of people once lived in a honeycomb town with no streets, entering their homes through the roof and burying their dead beneath the floor. Meet Çatalhöyük, one of humanity’s first great experiments in living together.
