The history of Sicily begins with the history of Europe. It was populated by people of modern human type. Settlements and new civilizations followed in waves, then followed by new ones over and over: the Phoenician, the Greeks, the Arabs. The most ancient Sicilian culture we know is dated around 10,000 bC. Sicily used to have a different name before the current one (we would call it Sicania) It is taken from the “Sicani” people, a tribe. Then came the « Siculi", an other Tribe. Then came many other waves of migrational population.