Strabon.io, a time travelling world map to trace back cities and archaeological sites according to human settlements activities since the Lower Palaeolithic

3rd millennium BCE

Sumer

The craddle of civilization

Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BCE...

2nd millennium BCE

Egypt

Dream along the pharaohs Nile

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt...

7th century BCE

Levant

The holy land

The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia.

5th century BCE

Greece

The world of Thucydides, Xenophon, Demosthenes...

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity...

3rd century CE

Rome

5th century CE

Asia

15th century CE

Europe

17th century CE

New world


Sites by terminus a quo

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Sites by terminus ad quem

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Sites by cultures

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Sites by actual countries

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