Three leather balls discovered in northwest China set back the invention of ball games in Asia by hundreds of years. These three leather balls with a diameter between 7.4 and 9.2 cm are between 3200 and 2900 years old. Humanity did not wait for the advent of Fifa to play with footballs. Moreover,
Scientists have proceeded to the opening of the supposed tomb of Montaigne in Bordeaux and have taken out a coffin on which appears the name of the famous philosopher of the 16e century. But additional investigations are necessary to identify the bones that are inside… a second lead coffin. The s
For nearly two hundred years, archaeologists have searched for a plausible explanation for the ancient Yazılıkaya rock sanctuary in central Turkey. More than 3,200 years ago, stonemasons carved more than 90 reliefs of deities, animals, and chimeras into the limestone bedrock. An international team
The Scythians lived throughout Eurasia from 700 to 200 BC, and were long considered highly mobile warriors who roamed the steppe grasslands. Herodotus describes the Scythian populations as chariot-dwellers who engaged in raiding and warfare, and this view has persisted throughout history, supported