This book examines the most ancient civilizations of Europe, from the Stone Age to the era of the Great Migration. A mosaic of numerous and diverse civilizations, like impressionistic strokes, forms before the reader into a single picture, permeated with mutual influences and successive transformations. These connections are manifested at all levels of life: in religion and art, politics and economics, language and morals. It is in the paradoxical combination of diversity and unity that the author presents us with the history of ancient Europe.