Early paleoanthropological studies of fossils Neanderthals from El Sidrón were undertaken on a sample without a documented archaeological context. After the systematic excavations undertaken from 2001 by Prof. Javier Fortea, Professor at the University of Oviedo, an abundant collection of human foss
Assyriology is a specialization of archeology focused on Mesopotamia, fundamentally, as its name indicates, on the Assyrian and Babylonian civilizations, but also the Sumerian, the Akkadian and, in general, all those that used cuneiform writing. It is a discipline that we immediately associate with
In the Middle Ages, in some areas, sheepskin scrolls were preferred to those of other animal species to deter forgers. Title deed to land at Enfield, Middlesex, signed and sealed January 1499, on sheepskin parchment. Preventing the manipulation of documents by fraudsters by preserving the integri
On February 22, 1939, the mission of the German Archaeological Institute led by the architect Arnold Nöldeke excavating in the Sumerian city of Uruk, in the southeast of present-day Iraq, found a marble sculpture representing the face of a woman. It was found in the area of the city where the te