Stonehenge, ancient ritual and the origins of paganism (TRIH ep 114)
2,500 BCE · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Professor Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol) about paganism across time and place. Hutton argues the term "pagan" is a Christian category useful for describing pre-Christian, local rooted religions and stresses varying evidential quality: rich written sources in the classical Mediterranean versus fragmentary material remains for northern Europe. Topics include Roman and medieval encounters with paganism, survival and absorption of pagan mot...
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 2500 BCE
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Stonehenge (2500 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire under Sargon (2334 BCE)
- Mohenjo-daro at its peak (2500 BCE)
- Stonehenge sarsen circle erected (2500 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilization at peak (2500 BCE)
- Sargon of Akkad (2334 BCE)
- Djoser's Step Pyramid built (2650 BCE)
- First Dynasty of Ur (2600 BCE)