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Northern Europe's best preserved Neolithic village. [44] [45] Tomb of the Eagles: United Kingdom Europe: 3150 BCE Tomb In use for 800 years or more. Numerous bird bones were found here, predominantly white-tailed sea eagle. [46] [47] Tepe Sialk ziggurat Iran: Asia: 3000 BCE Ziggurat The oldest settlements in Sialk to date to around 6000–5500 BCE.
Knossos is considered by many to be the oldest city in Europe. [3] Knossos is dominated by the monumental Palace of Minos. Like other Minoan palaces, this complex of buildings served as a combination religious and administrative centre rather than a royal residence.
The oldest structure is the eleven-metre-long straight wall to the west of the temples' first entrance. [54] The deposit against it contained material from the first known human occupation of the island, the Għar Dalam phase.
Rhodes (Ancient and Walled City of Rhodes), South Aegean Samikon , West Greece Samothrace Temple complex (Sanctuary of the Great Gods), East Macedonia and Thrace
The Iron Age in northern Europe is markedly distinct from the Celtic La Tène culture south of it. The old long-range trading networks south–north between the Mediterranean cultures and Northern Europe had broken down at the end of the Nordic Bronze Age and caused a rapid and deep cultural change in Scandinavia. Bronze, which was an imported ...
Watercolour painting of the temple ruins by Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros, 1778 Engraving of the temple made in 1848 Residents and travelers knew about the existence of the temple for a long time. In the late 18th century, before any excavations were carried out, Jean-Pierre Houël drew a plan based on that knowledge, which has been found to be ...
The Cairn of Barnenez (also: Barnenez Tumulus, Barnenez Mound; in Breton Karn Barnenez; in French: Cairn de Barnenez or Tumulus de Barnenez) is a Neolithic monument located near Plouezoc'h, on the Kernéléhen peninsula in northern Finistère, Brittany ().
Knap of Howar Neolithic farmstead is probably the oldest preserved house in northern Europe. Situated on the island of Papa Westray (which may have been combined with nearby Westray in the early Neolithic), the farmstead consists of two adjacent rounded rectangular thick-walled buildings with low doorways linked by a passageway.