Magnificent.  Let's not forget that the oldest writing system in the world was discovered on the valley of the river Danube in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%83rt%C4%83ria_tablets#Previous_discoveries_of_Vin%C4%8Da_symbols And also, hominids may very well have first split off from apes for the first time in Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graecopithecus#Implications