One of the most legendary disasters of the Roman Empire occurred in AD 9, when three legions were massacred by a union of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. In 2016 a new discovery of coins reinforced the theory that the place where it was fought is the Kalkriese hill , in Lowe
A long-controversial Mayan manuscript has been revealed to be an original. Dated around 1230, it becomes the oldest known manuscript in America. Knife in hand, a Mayan deity has just beheaded a shackled captive, whose blood spurts from the neck. AUTHENTICATION. Incredible turnaround. A famous Maya
Flint, drugs and rockn roll:life in the Palaeolithic was much more exciting than you might imagine! Focus on the cave paintings of the Chauvet cave and the vision they give us of these paleoartists, in a documentary by Sciences et Avenir . The Chauvet cave is a whole bestiary:lions, bears, aurochs
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