An international team is studying the Chicxulub crater, left by a 10 km meteorite that struck the Earth 65 million years ago. She hopes to recover fragments of this monster. Scientists on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico on May 7, 2016 CRATER. In the calm, crystal-clear waters of the Gulf of Mexic
In 1952 the French archaeologist Pierre Cintas, a specialist in Punic archeology and famous, among other things, for having discovered the founding deposit of Carthage, together with Charles Saumagne, discovered the ruins of a Carthaginian city in northeastern Tunisia, near Cape Bon . The following
A hunting scene, painted 44,000 years ago in present-day Indonesia, is said to represent the oldest hunting scene in prehistoric art known to date, according to researchers who signed a study published in the journal Nature . Photo courtesy of Griffith University of oldest known hunting scene. It
In a crypt under the Qixia Buddhist temple in Nanjing, archaeologists discovered in 2010 a stupa with human remains, whose inscriptions identify them as Buddhist saints. Between them is a parietal bone of a skull which, according to what is inscribed, would be that of Siddhartha Gautama himself, the