The signary of Espanca was the first Paleohispanic alphabet found in the Iberian Peninsula, but it still raises more questions than answers. Previously, only one other alphabet had appeared, but in Latin characters, that of the Celtiberian sanctuary of Peñalba de Villastar, in Teruel. There is lit
Mysterious giant jars have been unearthed at four new sites in Assam, India, that could have been used in funerary rituals. The discovery is the result of a collaboration involving researchers from the Australian National University (ANU). The 65 newly discovered sandstone jars vary in shape and d
In 1984, an expedition studying the cultural heritage of Yanqing County, located northwest of the city of Beijing, found a series of caves near the town of Dongmenying. They are excavated in the rocky wall of a mountain, which is pierced by 117 caves inside which there are 350 chambers, since each
Agatha Christie aroused a curiosity so strong for knowing our past that she even travelled in 1930 to Iraq to visit the campaign of excavations , whose director was Leonard Woolley, which was taking place in the well-known city of Ur . There she met her second husband , a British archaeologist of