Portable art plaques decorated with 14,500-year-old animal figures were discovered for the first time in Brittany. Unpublished iconographic evidence from the end of the Upper Paleolithic in this region of Western Europe. Dated 14,500 years ago, these plates engraved with unpublished bulls heads we
On February 22, 1939, the mission of the German Archaeological Institute led by the architect Arnold Nöldeke excavating in the Sumerian city of Uruk, in the southeast of present-day Iraq, found a marble sculpture representing the face of a woman. It was found in the area of the city where the te
Paleontologists working in Ethiopia are analyzing a recent discovery that could indicate yet another revision of what is known about our ancestry. A prehistoric peccary about 2.8 million years old may represent the identification of another species, perhaps the oldest of the genus Homo. The mandible
The Addaura complex, located on the northeast slope of the Monte Pellegrino massif in northern Sicily, is made up of several caves that were used by the allies after the invasion of Sicily in 1943 as an ammunition store. Towards the end of the Second World War there was an accidental explosion in th