In 1954, a curious structure was discovered in the northwest of the island of Sardinia, near the town of Porto Torres:a huge stone platform whose oldest parts date from around 4000-3650 BC, that is, before, for example, Stonehenge, and about a thousand years older than the pyramids of Egypt. It is n
DNA analysis of an ancient African skeleton reveals a major wave of migration from the Near East 3,000 years ago. Entrance to the cave in which Motta Man was discovered. GENOME. Modern man, who appeared in Africa 200,000 years ago, left it several times to populate the planet... but he also retur
Near the Italian town of Foresta in the province of Caserta, and very close to the extinct volcano Roccamonfina, there is an area called Ciampate del Diavolo (literally footprints of the devil ). It is named like this due to a trail of fossilized footprints, divided into three sections, clearly visi
“Soldiers! From the top of those pyramids, forty centuries watch you!” Napoléons famous harangue to his troops before the battle in which he defeated the Mamluks almost became mere testimony to a vanished memory just four decades later, when the Ottoman wali (governor) of Egypt suggested using the s