Archaeological excavations carried out during the summer of 2020 brought to light on the site of the former Augustodunum – today Autun, in Saône-et-Loire – a lot of exceptional objects which could have belonged to the first Christians of Gaul. Among them, an extremely rare glass vase. A close view
Researchers from the University of Bonn together with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities deciphered the worlds oldest place-name sign, an inscription from the time of the emergence of the Egyptian state at the end of the fourth millennium BC, found in the Wadi el Malik to the east from Aswan, an a
How many times have you heard of Tutankhamuns curse? From the inscription that Howard Carter would have found on the door of his tomb warning that Death will come on light wings to the one who hinders the pharaohs peace o Death will strike with its fear the one who disturbs the rest of the pharaoh
The presence of menhirs is not common in India, although there are some examples in the states of Megalaya, Nagaland and Andhra Pradesh. In 2010, a team of researchers from the countrys Archaeological Survey discovered 171 more in the state of Mizoram, in northeastern India. They are located in a f