Today we are witnessing a continuous arrival of relevant news to important archaeological discoveries. As history buffs we enjoy them with the eyes of a child, ready to soak up new historical revelations. Recently the lost city of Luxor in Egypt, or a few days ago a Roman amphitheater with 20,000 sp
A hunting scene, painted 44,000 years ago in present-day Indonesia, is said to represent the oldest hunting scene in prehistoric art known to date, according to researchers who signed a study published in the journal Nature . Photo courtesy of Griffith University of oldest known hunting scene. It
Subject of an exhibition in Clermont-Ferrand, the excavations of the site of Montels III in Cébazat brought to light a vase of wine infused with hemp within a tomb. Decryption of the importance of this discovery and these practices with Matthieu Poux, professor of archeology at the University of Lyo
The discovery of a 3,500-year-old cobblestone, considered the ancestor of Mediterranean mosaics and resting in the remains of a lost city in central Turkey, sharpens knowledge about the daily life of the still mysterious Hittites from the Bronze Age. Archaeologists work on the remains of a Hittite