It is reasonable to deduce that Man, in the successive phases of his prehistory and in order to achieve a warmer environment, resorted to animal skins to cover the floor of the caves and huts that he inhabited. They were the antecedents of what later, with technological progress, was elaborated ex p
A team of UK researchers has succeeded in reconstructing the vocal tract of an Egyptian mummy using a combination of CT scans, 3D printing and an electronic larynx. The project, which began in 2013, is the result of combining clinical science, archaeology, Egyptology and electrical engineering. For
We have already spoken on many occasions about the archaeologist Leonard Woolley and the amazing discoveries he made throughout his life:he directed with T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) the excavations of Carchemish, found the statue-biography of King Idrimi, and found the geological evidence of
Kyrgyzstans decision to bury its only 1,500-year-old mummy has angered the scientific world. He accuses the authorities of giving in to psychics in this Central Asian country where superstitions remain deeply rooted. Almazbek Atambayev, the outgoing president of Kyrgyzstan, at the UN headquarters