To be exact, there are two Phoenician ships found on the coast of Mazarrón in Murcia. The first was discovered in 1988 about 50 meters from the shore and two and a half meters deep in Playa de la Isla. Only the keel and remains of four frames and some fragments of strakes remained, all covered with
In 1887 the archaeologist Wolfgang Helbig presented to the astonished members of the German Institute in Rome a small piece of gold, a fibula barely 10 and a half centimeters long, used to fasten clothing such as togas. According to him, it had been found in 1871 in the ancient Latin city of Palest
An international team of researchers reconstructed, using computed tomography, the face of Nebiri, an Egyptian dignitary who lived during the reign of Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, of the 18th dynasty (1479-1425 BC). The Valley of the Queens is the Egyptian necropolis located to the southwest of the famo
Archeology brought to light in mid-2017 an ancient lost, buried and forgotten city whose cyclopean architectural characteristics have led its discoverers to baptize it unofficially, half seriously, half jokingly, city of the giants. Something that is also endorsed by some local legends about the ext
The ugly habit of leaving graffiti and incised inscriptions on historical monuments is not only not new but also historical and, paradoxically, can provide interesting information. The bad thing is when tourists leave them tarnishing ancient works. Now, and the travelers are also from another era?
Megalithic monuments are traditionally associated with solar alignments, as is the case with Stonehenge, or they are attributed the function of astronomical observatory, as is the case of the passage tombs that we reviewed here a year ago. Archaeologists working in the area of Hendraburnick Down
On both sides of the Pyrenees, in an area that goes from Andorra to the Bay of Biscay, there are more than 1,400 megalithic monuments, cromlechs and menhirs. Also called harrespil (circle of stones) in Basque, it is a unique set of cromlechs with no equivalent in the rest of the Iberian Peninsula a
The signary of Espanca was the first Paleohispanic alphabet found in the Iberian Peninsula, but it still raises more questions than answers. Previously, only one other alphabet had appeared, but in Latin characters, that of the Celtiberian sanctuary of Peñalba de Villastar, in Teruel. There is lit
The small, uninhabited island of Keros today is one of the Lesser Cyclades, located in the Aegean about 10 kilometers from Naxos. The place is important because it is believed that the oldest island sanctuary was there. that is known, the first in which the difficulty of access only by sea did not
The Folkton Drums are three cylindrical limestone objects found in a childs grave dating from around the time Stonehenge was built. They were found in 1889 by William Greenwell, near the town of Folkton in North Yorkshire, England. Greenwell, who was a priest, had studied at the University of Durha
Not only does it contain the longest known text in the Etruscan language, it is also considered the only existing ancient book written on linen. It is known as Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (the linen book of Zagreb) and also as Liber Agramensis . It contains the only extant non-epigraphic Etruscan te
Just as in Peru the Nazca Lines have gone from being a mere archaeological monument to becoming an important tourist attraction complementary to Cuzco or Machu Picchu and an economic catalyst for the region, their Bolivian counterparts still remain semi-anonymous, unable to approach the suggestive p
The discovery adds to other Stone Age enclosures recently found in the country, whose function remains a mystery. It is a huge structure originally made up of wooden poles, oval in shape and covering an area of almost 18,000 square meters, located in the town of Stevns, on the east coast of the i
The Swedish island of Gotland is home to the largest concentration of fluted stones in all of Europe, artifacts that are more interesting than they seem. Gotland is the largest island in the Baltic Sea, located off the eastern coast of Sweden and the northern coast of Poland. It is a limestone plat
Flint was one of the most coveted and valuable materials of the Stone Age, used for the manufacture of cutting tools and weapons. Not only that, in addition to its hardness and ability to break easily into flakes with sharp edges, it added that when it was hit against other rocks it produced sparks
The Battle of Salamis is considered one of the most important in the history of Western culture. Indeed, both the battle of Salamis and the subsequent one at Plataea marked a turning point in the Persian Wars. After them, the Persian empire never again tried to conquer Hellas. A Persian victory at
It is not something that happens every day, discovering biographies of real people from 3,500 years ago, which is why the statue of King Idrimi is still today one of the most important finds in history. The phrase is from James Fraser, one of the curators of the Middle East department of the Britis
The great Mongol rulers have left for posterity a mystery that fascinates archaeologists and historians, that of the exact location of their tombs. Perhaps the most prominent case is that of Genghis Khan, whose zeal in keeping his final resting place hidden remains a secret to this day, despite the
Relatively little known outside of Ireland, the Brownshill dolmen is considered the largest and heaviest in Europe. Although its official name is Kernanstown cromlech , is popularly known as Brownshill dolmen , perhaps to avoid the ambiguity of the term chromlech , which in French and Spanish appli
In 1959, numerous medieval sarcophagi were discovered in the Basilica of Saint-Denis in Paris, the burial place for centuries of the kings of France. The person in charge of the Parisian archaeological work was, at that time, Michel Fleury, one of the most outstanding French specialists. Upon openi
The second half of the 20th century was a revolution with regarding our knowledge of human origins, positioning the African continent as the cradle of humanity, an idea that has persisted to this day. It was the researchers Mary and Louis Leakey who began systematic archaeological work in the Olduva
Nearly 150 burials have been unearthed in the early Christian necropolis of Saint-Pierre-lEstrier in Autun. The excavations reveal a great diversity of burials. Aerial view of the excavation site. One hundred and fifty tombs dating from the middle of the 3rd to the 5th century, one of which may c
During the spring 2022 campaign of the Iraqi-German Mission involving the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute, an ancient vessel of bitumen and organic material was excavated, which has not been preserved . The find was digitally documen
Traces of lapis lazuli embedded in the dental plaque of a woman who lived in medieval times suggest that she may have been the first copyist and painter of illuminated manuscripts ever encountered. A discovery that calls into question the belief that only men fulfilled this role. Lower jaw of a 12