Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. For 1,500 years, starting earlier than 5000 B.C., they farmed and built sizable towns... read full article here.An exhibition opened last month and will run through April 25, 2010 at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University: "The Lost World of Old Europe: the Danube Valley, 5000-3500 B.C."
http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/exhibitions/oldeurope/
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