New little men, living 700,000 years ago, have been discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores, outside the cave of Liang Bua which had delivered the first Hobbits in 2003. A photo from October 27, 2004, with a reproduction of the skull of the man from Flores, nicknamed the Hobbit due to its sma
Researchers have succeeded in 3D printing the vocal tract of a man mummified 3,000 years ago. Using an electronic larynx, they managed to make him utter a sound. Nesyamon was an Egyptian priest and scribe working at the temple of Karnak, Thebes. The voice of a man dead for 3,000 years rose in a r
In the Iranian province of Fars, about five kilometers northwest of Persepolis, the ancient capital of the Persian empire, there is a rocky mountain in which tombs and reliefs from the Achaemenid and Sassanian eras are excavated. Of all of them, four stand out for their size, cruciform in appearanc
Papyri dating from the time of Pharaoh Cheops, the oldest known to date, presented in Cairo for the first time. They evoke details concerning the construction of the great pyramid. This precious fragment of papyrus, 4500 years old, is the oldest document found in Egypt, where the name appears of Ph