What on Earth Happened to the Old Europeans? Pre-Indo-European History of Europe

My Nana is an old European and she’s doing fine thanks.

Years past a DNA test was done on a 3,000 year old body from a English bog. The local villagers were tested. The far, far, far removed son was found and lived in a British pub. We have jets, ships, cars, and spacecraft. But the descendants of the bog man never made it past the local pub. That's how the aliens kept us on earth. We were given beer.

It’s so interesting to know how much human history there is that we just don’t know. Imagine being able to peek into the past and see what humanity was like long ago

in 1976 i spent about a week in Cagliari, Sardinia and was impressed with the city and what i saw of the island. i met an airbrush artist named Mario Massa whose work was fantastic fantasy from his mind and soul. enjoyed supper in his apartment with his wife and young son and communicated pretty well with an Italian/English translating book. while there i had the feeling that i was in a very remote part of the world,but of course i wasn't ,geographically. Cagliari will always be a special memory.

I'm Sardinian. I thought you weren't going to talk about our history and at 10:37 I made a little jump from happiness. Our island is hardly ever considered when talking about history and historical research hasn't been funded

The Ötzi mummy, which was discovered in the Alps in 1991 and is more than 5000 years old, was found to have the closest genetic resemblance to people from Corsica and Sardinia. It shows how far these non-Indo-European people ranged at that time.

As a spanish, I made the same little jump than sardinians when you talked about euskera (basque-protoaquitanian)🤩 They count based on 20 (how is 80 in french?😉) and, one of the countless amazing things is that the moon ilargia is "dead light" or "dead' s light" February is Otsaila, "the month of the wolves"... It' s literally like a travel machine. 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤 Edit: mistaken fixed by an actual person from Euskal Herria.

It’s been forever since I’ve been looking for such thorough and concise information. Thank you!!

I still don't know what happened to the Old Europeans

A minor correction. Latins did not took their alphabet from the Carthaginians, they took it from the Etruscan directly, who themsleves took it from the Greeks (not the Phoenicians). It was the Greeks that took theirs from the Phoenicians.

After watching a few other ancient history channels I'm relieved to watch another one of your videos again. You'd be surprised, or maybe you know, how much false history narratives are shilled out with zero evidence. Thanks for having a well researched unbiased style for making these videos. I also love the incorporation of genetics and language in filling in the gaps. It's refreshing compared to channels who do things like use the accounts of Herodotus as their only source and then proceed to butcher the interpretation.

You should look into to the Vincan culture from the western Balkans, which was the oldest culture in Europe since the Bronze Age. They had their own writing system and civilization...

"Europe is a very divided continent." Europe is objectively a peninsula of peninsulas.

This was an absolutely amazing video. The use of maps to explain migrations of populations AND languages was perfect

Excellent video! Wish you covered the Minoans too though, they are extremely interesting and no doubt influental to Greeks that assimilated them.

I agree with 90 % , well done .The Celtiberian culture’s existence is under scrutiny as of late by a number of scholars . The theory of Basque as belonging to the Iberian linguistic group has been gaining ground . It is pretty clear that Basque - Iberian toponymy is present all over the Iberian peninsula . There are a couple of books linking Etruscan to Basque , as well as to other long gone languages like Ligurian .

imagine when we do out first "true" (moving people), deep space exploation and some dude called columbus 2.0 finds a new planet we could not percieve with our technology here on earth, and 100 years later we figure out that the vikings had already been there.

You should have talked about the Minoans... Probably the best documented pre-Europeans

Although I was too overwhelming for me to hear about existence of pre endo-civilization, I enjoyed it throughly. Thanks for the information!

Wow! PLEASE break this down into 1 hour lectures!!! So much info...so little time. Looks like you do some serious research! Thanks for sharing.