Sapiens has fashioned more and more powerful weapons, capable of defeating all types of game. Prehistory, Upper Palaeolithic. Homo sapiens sheltering from the cold in a cave. Painting by Francisco Fonollosa. This article is taken from n°204 of Indispensables de Sciences et Avenir, dated January/M
Thousands of years ago, the Sahara was surprisingly green, with rich vegetation, trees, and lakes covering almost all of what is now sandy desert. There were vast open grasslands, forests, rivers, lakes and wetlands, which allowed the survival of a wide variety of animal species. Antelopes, gazelles
Also called Siloam tunnel due to the inscription discovered in it, which tells the story of its opening, the Hezekiah Tunnel is an underground water conduction under the city of David in Jerusalem. Mentioned in the Bible (Kings 2, 20:20) as the work of King Hezekiah within the preparations for the d
This is a new harvest of the most auspicious for the archaeologists of Mesoamerica:no less than 478 new ceremonial sites have been detected thanks to LiDAR technology in the state of Tabasco, in southern Mexico. Their standardized blueprints indicate that this type of architecture was formalized ear