Old Europe and the Old European cultural heritage in Western civilization

Dr. Harald Haarmann is a linguist, cultural scientist and philosopher. Since 2003 he has been Vice-President of the Institute of Archaeomythology (main office in Sebastopol, CA / USA; ) and director of its “European Branch” (with location in Luumäki / Finland; ). Harald Haarmann has authored more than 80 books in German and English. Some of these books have been translated into over a dozen languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and others. Among his works are several world histories (of writing, languages, numbers, ancient civilizations, of forgotten cultures, of the spread of the invention of the wheel in the world). The scope of the present volume is to draw attention to a world of major achievements, in the social, cultural and technological domains, that served as a corner-stone for the layout of Greek civilization. Greek antiquity developed into a sort of turntable for these achievements that experienced manifold transformations and were transferred to the emerging civilizations of the western world.