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
These particles can cross very thick rocks. In Egypt, the ScanPyramids campaign uses them to X-ray monuments in depth and reveal previously invisible structures. The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur, Egypt. FUTURISTIC. The image is worthy of a science fiction film:a line of men dressed in white coveralls,
It is a series of gold and silver tubes found at the end of the 19th century in a famous tomb in the Caucasus. Their function remained unknown, but we have just understood that they would be large straws allowing, in the Bronze Age, to collectively drink beer. Until now, the rods kept in the Hermita
The first civilizations that built monumental palaces and urban centers in Europe are more genetically homogeneous than expected, according to the first study to sequence complete genomes collected from ancient archaeological sites in the Aegean Sea. The study has been published in the journal Cell