Allegramma

1968. Fossils are found throughout Europe and the Middle East that show that a sentient life-form existed before Humans on Earth. Throughout the next 30 odd years, excavations reveal an intricate civilisation of primates that lived during the late Eocene, just before the planet descended into the glacial period we are living in today.   An important hotspot for those discoveries is around the Messel Pit in Germany, where the evolution of this species can almost be retraced. The discoveries occupy scientists for decades and the stories captivate the attention of the public.   Dive in this world, its inhabitants, its languages, its cultures, beliefs, traditions and oddities and discover the first civilisation to emerge on Earth, with its continents not yet merged the way we know them, its disasters and its miracles.