An unpublished trilingual inscription from the Achaemenid period has just been discovered in Iran, near the tomb of Darius, king of the Persians. The Achaemenid inscription had remained hidden for more than two millennia under lichens. These are four lines of text, finely incised in the rock, whi
Next to the village of Assento in the council of Vila Real, in the north of Portugal, there is a curious rocky enclosure in which several cavities of different sizes are carved. Although at first glance some of them may seem natural, they are actually part of a Roman sanctuary built between the end
On the night of September 2 to 3, 2018, a fire ravaged the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), one of the largest museums on the American continent. A look back at the lost collections… and what would have survived… Aerial view of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the day aft
Researchers searching for groundwater sources in the Eastern Arabian Peninsula for a project funded by the United States Agency for International Relief and Development have accidentally discovered the outlines of a settlement that appears to be more than 3,600 years old. A symmetrical, 2 x 3 kilo