In it the Hittite and Egyptian armies clashed and , although the result of the battle was uncertain (none managed to impose forcefully on his opponent), its results were not so:the pharaoh had to abandon all pretense over the Syrian territory -which his predecessors in office had indeed dominated- r
A llama carved from a spondylus shell and a cylindrical gold foil object are the contents of a carved stone box, an offering, found at the bottom of Lake Titicaca, according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Free University of Brussels. The offering, found near an island in
Archaeological excavations being carried out in the area of Bathonea (ancient Greek city), near Lake Küçükçekmece some 20 kilometers west of Istanbul, have recently brought to light a port settlement believed to be the Viking quarter of Constantinople. According to the Polish archaeologist Blaze
A braid from the scalp of Native American chief Sitting Bull, in a photo provided by the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington Thanks to a new technique that allows genetic information to be obtained from a tiny or even fragmented sample of ancient DNA, a relationshi