All over the world the clocks tick the same - things and events happen at the same time, even if they are often as different as if they came from different eras. Scientists call this the "simultaneous inequality" of human history. In the same year of our history, a high culture emerges on one side of the globe, while on the other side people can neither read nor write. The Berlin archaeologist Prof. Matthias Wemhoff travels back in time and shows the parallel history of mankind.