The wreck of the second ship of the legendary British expedition that disappeared in 1848 has just been discovered in the Arctic, putting an end to one of the greatest enigmas and maritime tragedies of the 19th century. Engraving depicting the HMS Terror caught in the ice. The Franklin Expedition,
The beginnings of archeology in general and of Egyptology in particular, beyond the curiosity that the ruins unleashed in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, arrived between the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, being structured by a series of names that are almost familiar
Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have found in Tel Lachish (Israel) important evidence of the early development of the alphabet, dating from around 1450 BC. The find shows that the alphabet was not introduced to the Levant by the Egyptian conquerors, as previously thought. The st
In a new study, researchers explain how the multi-ton cylinders that top the mysterious Easter Island statues could have been placed atop them. moais from Easter Island, topped with pukao , caps weighing several tons. With its monumental sculptures, Easter Island -Rapa Nui - has always fascinate