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Neolithic Mediterraneans

Malta, Stonehenge, and the megalith builders of the western edge.

814 BCE – 146 BCE

A Phoenician colony that became Rome's most dangerous rival, and was erased for it.

1,200 BCE – 300 BCE

Traders from the Levantine coast who spread the alphabet across the Mediterranean.

2,500 BCE

The large sarsen stones are erected on Salisbury Plain, some hauled from over two hundred kilometres away.

2,800 BCE – 1,800 BCE

A distinctive pottery style spreads across western Europe, along with metalworking.

3,600 BCE – 2,500 BCE

Free-standing stone temples older than the pyramids and older than Stonehenge.