This small piece of carved ocher would have been used as a pencil more than 10,000 years ago. This carved ocher pebble could be one of the very first pencils used by a human. It was near the town of Scarborough, in the north-west of England that archaeologists from the University of York discove
In Arnhem Land, an Australian Aboriginal region, researchers have discovered previously unknown rock paintings that are between 6,000 and 9,400 years old. A marsupial of the Macropodidae family. Magnificent cave paintings, including representations of Macropodidae, a particular family of marsupia
Very close to the French town of Montesquieu-Avantés, in the Midi-Pyrénées region, and to the Tuc dAudoubert cave, whose fantastic prehistoric clay bison we have already reviewed in another article, is the Trois Frères cave (Three Brothers). Both are part of an underground system of three caverns f
An embracing couple has been discovered in a 1,500-year-old tomb in China. A moving discovery… And unprecedented in the country! Illustrative image provided by the studys lead researcher, depicting the embrace of the couple discovered in China. While the scene had already been observed in other co