There is an exhibit in the Poprad Museum of a Neanderthal skull molding, which was found in the village of Ganovce. "Ganovce Man", as he is affectionately known, dates back to around 200,000 B.C., and is the earliest evidence of people living in Slovakia. Other archaeological discoveries, tell us that the Celtic tribes came to Slovakia at the beginning of the Iron Age and that the Romans invaded the region in 6 A.D.
There is a Roman inscription still engraved on the rock of Trencin Castle, which was written in 179 A.D. and marked the most northern point of the Roman Empire at that time.
Following the fall of the Roman Empire, the region that is now Slovakia was raided by various different tribes, including the Huns, the Lombards, the Avars and the Germanic Goths, a phenomenon commonly known as the "migration of people".