The cave paintings of the European caves of Lascaux and Altamira are among the most impressive in the world. But they are not the oldest, nor are they the most prolific. If we stick to antiquity, we must consider those discovered three years ago on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, which would dat
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
More than 170 years after the mysterious disappearance of the British ship HMS Terror in the Canadian Arctic, never-before-seen images of the wreck have been released:they reveal a well-preserved interior that could shed new light on this legendary expedition. First images of the wreck of the Terr
An archaeological excavation in Svendborg, a town on the island of Funen in the southeast of Denmark, discovered a small medieval amulet whose rarity lies in the fact that it invokes the elves and the Trinity alike Christian. It is a small square metal piece barely two centimeters on a side that un