Macedonia History

 Gazelles, antelopes, zebras, giraffes and exotic animals galloped through the Tikveš area in the past. This is shown by the paleontological study of life millions of years ago in the Negotino region. A team of scientists discovered new fossil bone extractions. The Macedonian information service MIA was in the field these days and spoke to the experts from the natural science museums from Skopje and Sofia who carefully and lovingly explored the village of Dolni Disan. The ancestors of today's African elephants and rhinos lived here A few years ago, in the Negotino region were found claws or tusks of an elephant that lived in the Tikveš region millions of years ago and is currently the largest in Europe. Four years ago, fossil fragments of three-toed horses and goats were collected. In September of this year, milk teeth of a young elephant and other interesting finds were unearthed near Dolni Disan. - Everything that has been excavated in this area so far shows that the ancestors of...

 Lake Ohrid, Europe's oldest lake, lies between Macedonia and Albania. The deposits at its bottom are a unique climate archive. They show how new species arise - and then disappear again. If you look down at the shimmering Lake Ohrid from the heights of the Galičica National Park, you can imagine for a moment that there are no hotels and restaurants, no shopping markets and factories. You can, at least for a moment, get a feeling for what it was like when the border region between Macedonia and Albania was deserted. People have settled on the shores of the lake for about 6500 years, but the water has a much, much longer history. " The Ohrid lake is the oldest lake in Europe. It has existed for 1.36 million years without interruption ," says geographer Bernd Wagner from the University of Cologne. " It's unique that we can track an ecosystem over such a long period of time ." For comparison, the age of the waters in Germany: Lake Constance, Müritz and others m...

Adam of Macedonia, is a Neolithic sculpture found by archaeologist Milos Bilbija of the Skopje City Museum. More than 7.000 years old, it is the oldest artefact found in the Republic of Macedonia and among the oldest in the world. At the world archaeological symposium in Croatia in 2002, archaeologists declared the sculpture one of the world's ten most important archaeological finds. It dates from the 6th millennium BC. The sculpture represents a male body sitting and shows remarkable details in the spine, ribs and navel, and erect phallus. Adam of Macedonia At the beginning there was the Earth. And it turned into clay. Then it shaped into a figurine, the hands which created it – divined it, and gave it a name – Adam. A small ceramic figurine of a male torso, in a seated position, has been creating a real turmoil in the scientific community since a couple of years ago. This figurine was excavated at the turn of the millennium, from the archeological site of Govrlevo (...