Living by water

1. Stop 1 · About 11,000 years ago

   Hunters by a lake

   Begin in Yorkshire, where hunters camped by a lake, and the waterlogged ground kept their wood and bone.

   
2. about 6,500 years later

3. Stop 2 · About 2550 BC to 2470 BC

   The town that built the pyramids

   In Egypt, a whole town of bakers and workers was fed from the river’s harvest.

   
4. about 550 years later

5. Stop 3 · About 2000 BC

   The gift of the river

   Then see the river itself, through the granaries, bakeries and boats modelled for one official’s tomb.

   
6. about 1,200 years later

7. Stop 4 · Around the ninth century BC

   Must Farm

   Back in Britain, a village stood on stilts over a river channel. When it burned, the water kept what fell.

8. about 650 years later

9. Stop 5 · 196 BC, found 1799

   Reading the Rosetta Stone

   Finish where the Nile meets the sea, at Rashid, where the stone that unlocked Egypt’s writing was found.

   
10. End of the line

Pictures are credited on each stop’s own page.

Another line: How writing began and spread.