Built roughly 11,500 years ago by hunter-gatherers in southeastern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is older than farming, writing and the pyramids — and it changed how we understand the dawn of civilization.

On a windswept Maltese clifftop stands Ħaġar Qim, a limestone temple raised more than 5,000 years ago — older than the pyramids, and still standing against the sea.

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.

At a Neolithic village in China, people made flutes from crane bones that still play a musical scale nine thousand years later, brewed an ancient rice drink, and carved mysterious symbols. Meet Jiahu.

Just 30 km from Göbekli Tepe lies an 11,000-year-old site that is rewriting history in real time. With its haunting chamber of pillars and lifelike human carvings, Karahan Tepe proves a whole lost world once thrived here.

In Ireland’s Boyne Valley, beside its famous neighbour Newgrange, stands Knowth: a vast passage tomb with two passages, a ring of satellite tombs, and the greatest concentration of megalithic art in Europe.

Long before the pyramids rose beside the Nile, and thousands of years before a single stone was raised at Stonehenge, a small community gathered on the floor of what is

Before Mohenjo-daro or Harappa, there was Mehrgarh: a 9,000-year-old village in Pakistan where people first farmed, made pottery, worked copper, and even practiced dentistry.

On Malta’s southern coast stand the temples of Mnajdra, over 5,000 years old. One is aligned so precisely with the sun that it marks the equinoxes and solstices, turning stone into an ancient calendar.

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.