An international team including researchers from the University of Arizona and the University of Johannesburg has found the oldest known skull of Homo erectus , the first of our ancestors to be almost human in its anatomy and aspects of its behavior. Years of meticulous excavation at the fossil-ric
The Mayans that inhabited the Mopán Valley in pre-Hispanic times (Guatemala) built urban settlements of remarkable architecture. Among them stand out La Blanca and Chilonché , investigated for more than fourteen years by the La Blanca Project, under the direction of Dr. Cristina Vidal Lorenzo from
We mostly know it as white, blonde, red or brown… But 9,000 years ago, it was a “rice beer” that was consumed in China, and this, in a very specific context. The analysis detected beer residue in eight containers out of the twenty that were studied. The production of beer dates back to the begin
The unearthing of a treasure not far from the city of Jelling, Denmark, suggests that a powerful lord lived in the Jutland peninsula in the 6e century of our era. Among the objects found are gold bracteates bearing as yet unknown runic designs and inscriptions, which may represent early versions of