Archaeologists have discovered a stone with a Pictish symbol near the location of one of the most important carved stone monuments ever discovered in Scotland. The University of Aberdeen team stumbled upon the 1.7-metre-long stone in a farmers field while conducting geophysical surveys to try to be
More than 100 seals engraved on ceramics dating from 2,700 years ago were unveiled this week in Jerusalem. According to archaeologists, this discovery sheds new light on the ancient Israelite kingdom of Judea and in particular on the organization of tax collection. A photo taken on July 22, 2020 s
Traces of teeth and scraping, cooking marks...:human bones exhumed in the cave of El Toro, in Spain, prove that cannibalism was practiced by the first European farmers, 5000 years before our era. Human skullcap transformed into a container (cut). Chewed bones, a peeled, polished and boiled skullc
Next to the village of Assento in the council of Vila Real, in the north of Portugal, there is a curious rocky enclosure in which several cavities of different sizes are carved. Although at first glance some of them may seem natural, they are actually part of a Roman sanctuary built between the end