Old Europe comes to Manhattan

A review in today's NY Times of an important exhibition at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World:

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, a few with as many as 2,000 dwellings. They mastered large-scale copper smelting, the new technology of the age.

More information at the exhibition website, The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC. The show will remain up until April 25th.

Posted by David on December 1, 2009 1:00 PM