Anthropology has long argued that tool making was what set our human ancestors apart from other primates. Now a new study suggests that it wasnt really the creation of tools but their miniaturization that was the key to human evolution. In an article published in Evolutionary Anthropology Justin Pa
Archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati have discovered two Bronze Age tombs containing a trove of engraved jewelry and artifacts that promise to unlock secrets about life in ancient Greece. These are two funerary monuments in the shape of a tholos , which have been officially named Vaulted
It is very common to find images of birds in the art of Ancient Egypt. We see them in paintings and sculptures with species of all kinds, from the ducks that were hunted in the Nile to the ibis that contributed its head to the god Toth, to the vulture that finished off the white crown of the high ki
In the year 10 B.C. Emperor Augustus commissioned the mathematician and architect Novius Facundus to design and build a sundial in Rome, the Horologium Augusti , as a commemoration of the Roman domination of Egypt and Augustus himself born to bring peace to the world . Thus, its installation was pr