12 Iron Age Civilizations That Left Behind Survivors We Never Knew About

12 Iron Age Civilizations That Left Behind Survivors We Never Knew About Around eight hundred BC, on the eastern shore of the Adriatic, a collection of warrior tribes built something Rome would spend centuries trying to destroy, and failed. The Illyrians left no unified written language, no central capital, and almost no propaganda. Yet their bloodline runs through one of the most continuous ethnic lineages in European history, and the language their descendants speak today has no confirmed relative anywhere on Earth.