Ancient Civilizations

As a follow-up to yesterday's post, there is this recent article on what appears to be the oldest known civilization in European yet uncovered by archaeologists:

Archaeologists have discovered Europe's oldest civilisation, a network of dozens
of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

More than 150 gigantic monuments have been located beneath the fields and
cities of modern-day Germany, Austria and Slovakia. They were built 7,000 years
ago, between 4800BC and 4600BC. Their discovery, revealed today by The
Independent, will revolutionise the study of prehistoric Europe, where an
appetite for monumental architecture was thought to have developed later than
in Mesopotamia and Egypt.

To continue on yesterday's theme, I find it fascinating that one of the first things ancient civilizations from all parts of the world did was built huge temples and shrines - that there was, as they say, "an appetite for monumental architecture." I guess the urge to build huge monuments has always been there, just because. And to this day, we carve faces in mountains, construct massive dams, and build 1,776 ft. tall buildings. But in doing so, we're not really besting our ancestors, but emulating them with ever more sophisticated techniques.

Just one more piece of evidence that humans across all cultures are really more alike than different.