The first period of excavations this year on the Trapeza plateau, eight kilometers southwest of Aegean in ancient Greek Achaia, has concluded, bringing to light, among other things, valuable sets of grave goods and three bronze swords. The place is identified with Ripes, a city that flourished in ea
This small piece of carved ocher would have been used as a pencil more than 10,000 years ago. This carved ocher pebble could be one of the very first pencils used by a human. It was near the town of Scarborough, in the north-west of England that archaeologists from the University of York discove
Using a protocol developed at the University of Cologne, researchers have been able to reconstruct how Europe was colonized by modern humans. The data shows that the population of European hunter-gatherers in the Aurignacian period, between 33,000 and 42,000 years ago, had an average of 1,500 indivi
We mostly know it as white, blonde, red or brown… But 9,000 years ago, it was a “rice beer” that was consumed in China, and this, in a very specific context. The analysis detected beer residue in eight containers out of the twenty that were studied. The production of beer dates back to the begin