For several decades, Cambodias archaeological heritage has been one of the most plundered on the planet. Eric Bourdonneau returns to the search for stolen works on the site of Koh Ker, north of Angkor. 3D reconstruction of the great dancing Shiva of the royal city of Koh Ker (10th century), north o
An extraordinary statue discovered in the Urals in the 19e century would be the oldest wooden sculpture in the world. New dates published in the journal Quaternary International have just pushed back the age of this prehistoric treasure by several centuries. Shigir Idol Head UPDATE. A new study
On both sides of the Pyrenees, in an area that goes from Andorra to the Bay of Biscay, there are more than 1,400 megalithic monuments, cromlechs and menhirs. Also called harrespil (circle of stones) in Basque, it is a unique set of cromlechs with no equivalent in the rest of the Iberian Peninsula a
Although they are found in various areas of the Mediterranean, the Domus de Janas they are especially abundant in Sardinia, where they were built by a prenuragic (i.e. pre-Bronze Age) culture called the Ozieri culture , which developed on the island between 3200 and 2800 BC The main religious cente