Archaeologists from the Ca Foscari University found for the first time prehistoric obsidian mines from the Bronze Age, located in Georgia. Although obsidian mining is known to have been a common practice in prehistory, pits dug for this purpose have never been found until now. In Europe, most of th
In the 5th century BC the Greek historian Herodotus traveled to Egypt and visited the current region of El Fayum, located south of the Nile delta, about 100 kilometers southwest of Cairo. There he saw a large lake that the Egyptians called mer-uer and which he named Meris (present-day Lake Moeris)
An extraordinary statue discovered in the Urals in the 19e century would be the oldest wooden sculpture in the world. New dates published in the journal Quaternary International have just pushed back the age of this prehistoric treasure by several centuries. Shigir Idol Head UPDATE. A new study
The recent announcement of a major archaeological discovery in the ancient cities of Thebes, Egypt, may not be that of a lost city , as proclaimed, but rather installations related to the city-palace of Amenhotep III. A nevertheless important discovery that could shed new light on the first years of