In 1996 a Belgian tourist enjoying his vacation on the coast of Croatia made a surprising discovery. His name was René Wouters (he passed away in 2012) and he was scuba diving near the islet of Vele Orjule, southeast of the island of Lussino (Lošinj) and north of the Adriatic coast. At a depth of a
Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen together with Greek researchers discovered in 2016 the remains of the ancient Athenian naval base in Piraeus, built in 493 BC . At the time it was a technical achievement and was also one of the greatest structures of Antiquity , playing an essentia
A team of French, Belgian and Belarusian archaeologists and historians are trying to find the traces of the famous Napoleonic battle, on the banks of the Berezina, in Belarus. Archaeologists dive into the Berezina, two hundred years after the famous Napoleonic battle. BIRTHDAY. On November 26, 18
In present-day Iran there are numerous ancient inscriptions from the Achaemenid period, for only one outside the country located in the Fortress of Van in Turkey, and commissioned by Xerxes I in the 5th century BC. The Persians of the time of Darius I and his son Xerxes I used a type of cuneiform w