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Landmark Europe archaeological

Tarxien Temples

3600 BCE – 2500 BCE · 1,100 years

Megalithic temple complex on Malta, among the oldest freestanding stone structures in the world, predating the pyramids

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Tarxien Temples on Wikipedia.

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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–500 CE)
  2. Eastern Roman Empire (600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (700 CE–1815 CE)
  4. Malta (1880 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1920 CE–1960 CE)
  6. Malta (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

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Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

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European tribal peoples

Attested 3000 BCE – 1930 CE

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Białowieża Forest

3000 BCE – still standing

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Germanic and Slavic tribes

Attested 3000 BCE – 1200 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3600 BCE and 2500 BCE.

3600 BCE Hagar Qim 3300 BCE Carnac Stones 3180 BCE Skara Brae 3000 BCE Göbekli Tepe 3000 BCE Stonehenge

And in the rest of the world

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Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Unification of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 3100 BCE – 2950 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Dravidians Polity · South Asia 3000 BCE – 700 BCE
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