Recently, archaeologists have been interested in contemporary times and the Allied landings of June 1944. A past whose traces are inexorably fading. Blockhouse of the Atlantic Wall, on the Normandy coast. The excavations of the site of Pegasus Bridge, north of Caen (Calvados) have just been compl
A research group from the Polytechnic of Milan has analyzed the orientation of the ancient Japanese megalithic burial mounds, the so-called Kofun, built between the second half of the 3rd century and the first half of the 7th century AD. This study had never been done before, due to the large number
Early paleoanthropological studies of fossils Neanderthals from El Sidrón were undertaken on a sample without a documented archaeological context. After the systematic excavations undertaken from 2001 by Prof. Javier Fortea, Professor at the University of Oviedo, an abundant collection of human foss
What could be one of the largest prehistoric structures in the UK has been discovered near Stonehenge by a team of archaeologists led by the University of Bradford. A huge 2 km diameter ring made up of prehistoric “pits” up to 10 meters wide and 5 meters deep has been discovered around the super he