Skip to content
Steffen Heilfort · CC BY-SA 3.0
Landmark Europe archaeological

Carnac Stones

3300 BCE – still standing

Thousands of prehistoric standing stones in Brittany, France

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Carnac stones on Wikipedia.

Read the article

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. No border recorded here in this snapshot (3000 BCE–2026 CE)

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Trade route · Europe

Roman Mediterranean Trade

27 BCE – 476 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3300 BCE and 2026 CE.

3180 BCE Skara Brae 3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge 3000 BCE Troy 3000 BCE Akrotiri

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
Image credits 8 pictures from Wikimedia Commons