Archaeologists have found the tokens and dice of an early Iron Age game in Norway. They appeared in a tomb in the Nordhordland district (in the west of the country and north of the city of Bergen), dated around 300 AD. early Iron Age (note that Iron Age dates are not the same for the Mediterranean a
In northern Australia, archaeologists are using fossil wasp nests to try to date cave paintings thousands of years old. Cave paintings in the Kimberley region of northern Australia are believed to be among the oldest in world. AUSTRALIA. For thousands of years, people have decorated the walls of r
Nearly 5000 years ago, in Mesopotamia, humans were at war with donkeys. But the identity of the most illustrious of them remained unknown...until the work of French researchers. Tomb of horses from Umm-El-Marra (Syria). Several centuries before the advent of the horse in the Fertile Crescent, hum
Did the queen of Coba, one of the largest cities in the ancient Mayan world, build the longest known Mayan road to invade a smaller, more isolated neighbor and gain a foothold against the emerging empire of Chichen Itza? The question has long intrigued Traci Ardren, an archaeologist and professor o