Archaeologists believe they have discovered the burial site of the Atalid dynasty , the Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the ancient Greek city of Pergamum in present-day Turkey after the death of Alexander the Great. The site, whose exact location has been unknown since ancient times, is part of a m
A study carried out in 2016 by the North American foundations Glen Dash Research and Ancient Egypt Research Associates found that the base of the famous Great Pyramid of Giza is not a perfect square . Due to a measurement error made by its builders more than 4,500 years ago, its western side is long
Recently reconstructed, the so-called by comparison German Stonehenge opened its doors to the public in mid-2016. It is a circular sanctuary similar to the British type, but instead of stone it was built in wood at the end of the third millennium BC . It was discovered in 1999 in Pömmelte, near the
Scientists from the National Museum of Eritrea and the Roman University of La Sapienza announced in 2016 the discovery of what may be the oldest traces of Homo Erectus. , dated 800,000 years ago. The footprints belong to several individuals that researchers believe were hunting animals at the time
The ancient city of Bazira (present-day Barikot in Pakistan) is considered to be the easternmost of the Greek fortifications of the Hellenistic period in Asia. Excavations have been carried out there since the mid-1980s by the Italian archaeological mission, which continues to report surprises. The
Archaeologists from the Zinman Institute of the University of Haifa in Israel have discovered in the ancient city of Hippos the remains of a monumental Roman gate , which could be the entrance to a sanctuary of the Greek god Pan, traditionally represented as half man and half goat. Already last yea
Archaeologists found in 2016 at the Peking Palace Museum , better known as the Forbidden City , porcelain shards and broken tiles dating back to the Yuan dynasty, established by Kublai Khan in the 13th century. This is how one of Chinas greatest mysteries is solved, the location of the Yuan Palace ,
About a month ago, in mid-April, we reviewed here the discovery of a station for the sacred boat of Khnum; I was in the so-called Nectanebo Pavilion , on the island of Elephantine. Well, that name continues to be associated with new surprises because the discovery in 2015 of a two thousand-year-old
On March 9, 1850, a group of workers working on the widening of the port of Tarragona found a marble sarcophagus with strange reliefs and inscriptions, among many other remains of the ancient Roman city. Without knowing what that rock was, the workers were breaking it into pieces to be able to extr
The discovery of a mummy of a fetus of just 18 weeks gestation has already made her the youngest ever found. The finding did not occur in Epigto but in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, inside a small wooden sarcophagus that had been donated to the museum in 1907, Already in the tomb of Tutankha
It seems unthinkable that at this point there are still sufficient signs of a town of Antiquity with idiosyncrasies and characteristics so consistent that it can be called an entire civilization to add to the study and chronology of History. However, for some time now it is what archaeologists and h
The trade routes they have forged history, sometimes ahead of the military path, sometimes behind and sometimes overlapping. It is not always clear which one came before and that is why the discovery of certain pieces in places far away from where they were produced can be confusing , even initially
We Spaniards celebrate 2016 as the year of Cervantes and the British do the same withShakespeare , given that both writers died on the same day, May 3, 1616 (actually the second was on April 23, according to the Julian calendar then in force in England, but it does not matter for the subject at hand
The Écrins National Park It comprises more than 100 summits located at more than 3,000 meters of altitude, as well as some 40 glaciers in the southwestern French Alps. There, in 2010, the cave paintings of animals located at the highest altitude in all of Europe were discovered. . The Abri Faravel
The oldest evidence of the use of fire during the Stone Age in Europe is in the Cueva Negra in the Estrecho del Río Quipar, in Murcia. It is a site in which remains of Homo Heidelbergensis have been found. , the direct precursor of Neanderthal Man. The excavation of the site began in 1990 and the f
One of the first British geologists was John Williams, author of Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom. It was he who first described some strange ruins in 1777, of which more than a hundred examples have subsequently been found throughout Europe, mainly in Scotland. He called them vitrified fortr
Archaeologists have discovered off the coast of Oman one of the sunken ships of the second expedition of the Portuguese Vasco da Gama to India in 1502. It is the oldest shipwreck of the age of discoveries found so far. Since Vasco da Gama discovered the maritime route in 1498, Portugal annually sen
Despite the efforts of researchers in recent centuries, the mystery of where Hannibal crossed the Alps to invade Italy in 218 B.C. remained unresolved. Some defended that it could be through the port of Little San Bernardo, Mont Cenis or Montgenévre. Others than through the port of Clapier, or even
The exact time when the early hominids they began to use fire in a controlled way. Paleoanthropologists estimate that it would be approximately a million years ago , although they actually lack explicit evidence for this for such early dates. That is why the work just presented by a team from the Un
An archaeological excavation in Svendborg, a town on the island of Funen in the southeast of Denmark, discovered a small medieval amulet whose rarity lies in the fact that it invokes the elves and the Trinity alike Christian. It is a small square metal piece barely two centimeters on a side that un
Salt, incriminated for several years by archaeologists at Chaco Canyon, would have finally been a source of progress. Chaco Canyon was the urban center of the Anasazi people. DENIAL . The assumptions of archaeologists as to the decline of the Anasazis (the Ancients in Navajo), which would have be
If we exclude the sources of the Blue Nile, after all the work of nature, the most important and colorful monument in Ethiopia is the set of churches carved into the rock that are in the town of Lalibela and are part of the World Heritage Site . But in the city of Aksum there is a piece that is pric
In the United States, researchers are going to try a new experiment:train dogs to sniff out looted antiquities. Training of a German shepherd in the identification of odors, at the Central Service for Forensic Identification in Ecully (France). After the search for narcotics, explosives or burie
Archaeologists have discovered off the coast of Oman one of the sunken ships of the second expedition of the Portuguese Vasco da Gama to India in 1502. It is the oldest shipwreck of the age of discoveries found so far. Since Vasco da Gama discovered the maritime route in 1498, Portugal annually sen