Europe in the ancient world (3500 BC – 800 BC). The first cities, the first writing, the first kings who called themselves gods. These articles cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus and the Bronze Age world that connected them.
Mineral grains in the Altar Stone match rock in northeast Scotland, 750 km away. The sarsens came from 25 km north, the bluestones from west Wales.
· 2500 BCArthur Evans dug at Knossos from 1900 to 1931 and rebuilt the palace in reinforced concrete, "a real godsend" to him, "controversial" to the Ashmolean.
· 1700 BCA Bronze Age town on Thera with three-story houses and drains, emptied before the eruption buried it. Radiocarbon and Egyptian dates differ by a century.
· 1600 BCA 32-centimeter bronze disc inlaid with gold stars, looted from the Mittelberg in 1999, seized in Basel in 2002 and dated to about 1600 BC.
· 1600 BCSchliemann began digging Grave Circle A at Mycenae on August 7, 1876, and wired the king in French. The "face of Agamemnon" line is not in his 1878 book.
· 1550 BCA sponge diver reported "metal biscuits with ears" off Kas in 1982; the Institute of Nautical Archaeology excavated the wreck from 1984 to 1994.
· 1300 BCAntiquity's 2019 report says a major conflagration destroyed Must Farm's Bronze Age stilt houses, whose contents sank into a Cambridgeshire river channel.
· 850 BC
