About 12 kilometers southwest of the ancient city of Ecbatana (modern Hamadan) in western Iran, and at an altitude of 2,000 meters on Mount Alvand, there are two huge panels carved into the rock. They are cuneiform inscriptions made in the time of Darius I the Great and his son Xerxes I. At some p
What links a fossil finger bone and teeth found in a cave in Siberias remote Altai Mountains to a single tooth found in a cave in the calcareous landscapes of tropical Laos? The answer to this question has been established by an international team of researchers from Laos, Europe, the United States
In 1867 a boy playing in a field on the small Danish island of Fænø found a stone whose shape seemed interesting and curious. The property manager, who was nearby, bought the piece from the boy for a silver thaler and gave it to the owner of the estate. It turned out to be an exceptional prehistoric
Archaeologists working at the site of the ancient city of Berenice Troglodytica, in the eastern desert along Egypts Red Sea coast, have announced the results of the latest season of excavations. Among them stands out a tomb with coral walls and floors and intact burials with a rich grave goods. Thi
Assyriology is a specialization of archeology focused on Mesopotamia, fundamentally, as its name indicates, on the Assyrian and Babylonian civilizations, but also the Sumerian, the Akkadian and, in general, all those that used cuneiform writing. It is a discipline that we immediately associate with
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Heiko Prümers, from the German Archaeological Institute, and Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt, from the University of Bonn, then a student in La Paz, began archaeological excavations in two mounds near the town of Casarabe, in Bolivia. Los Llanos de Mojos (the Benian pl
The Nazca culture, which developed in the valleys of what is now the department of Ica in Peru between the 1st and 7th centuries AD, is famous for the impressive lines of the same name, made in the Pampas de Jumana, and which represent gigantic figures of animals, human and geometric motifs. But th
1695 was not a year that stood out especially for any historical episode, beyond the eternal war events and the typical birth and obituary anniversaries... unless one was a native of Oasisamerica, in which case one would expect the end of the world to occur. The latter is nothing extraordinary eithe
Near the village of Gamzigrad in the Timok Valley, east of present-day Serbia and near the ancient Danube limes, are the ruins of a large Roman settlement. The first descriptions of the site were made by the German geologist August von Herder in 1835, and as early as the late 19th century the Hung
The Egyptian archaeological mission that works in the necropolis of sacred animals of Saqqara managed to discover the largest set of statues and sarcophagi dating from the late period, during the work of the fourth season of excavations. According to Dr. Mustafa Waziri, secretary general of the Sup
On the banks of the Taunton River in Berkley, Massachusetts, there is a small museum with a unique but huge exhibit:a 40-ton rock that was dug out of the river bed and installed here in 1963:the famous Dighton Rock, named after it. from the ancient town of Dighton, where it was found. For centuries
As we saw in another article, the Naabeehó Bináhásdzo or Navajo Nation is the largest semi-autonomous territory in the United States; seventy-one thousand square kilometers distributed between Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, with its own government and administration and in which some sixteen thousand
In the year 330 B.C. Alexander the Great advanced through Persian territory conquering its cities and regions, culminating in the taking of Persepolis. A little further south of the ancient Achaemenid capital was the city of Gor, which offered him such resistance that to surrender it he had to resor
The Egyptian archaeological mission working at the site of Tell Al-Farma (ancient Pelusium) in the North Sinai archaeological area announced the discovery of the remains of a temple to the god Zeus Cassios. The find was made about 200 meters west of the ancient fortress, and 100 meters south of the
A new analysis of residues inside ancient 11th-12th century ceramic vessels in Jerusalem has revealed that they could have been used as hand grenades. Previous research on the various sphero-conical vessels, found in museums around the world, had determined that they were used for a variety of purp
On the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation in northwestern Nevada, there were two adjoining lakes, one named after the reservation and the other Lake Winnemucca. But the construction of the Derby Dam on the Truckee River in 1903 and State Highway 447 shortly thereafter (which blocked its connection to
Researchers and experts have long agreed that the origin of the Great Flood myth found in many cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near and Middle East lies in the Mesopotamian story told in the Gilgamesh poem, which includes a version of the story that is actually older. It is tablet number XI t
The tomb of the official responsible for the secret documents of the royal chancery during the reign of Userkara, the second pharaoh of the 6th dynasty, was discovered by Polish archaeologists in Saqqara, next to the oldest pyramid in the world. It dates back to 4,300 years ago. So far, researchers
Ancient Art Archive and Dr. Jan Simek of the University of Tennessee used 3D digital modeling techniques to uncover previously unknown large-scale indigenous rock art on a cave ceiling in the southeastern United States. Ancient Art Archive was able to perform the large-scale 3D modeling that enabled
In 1878 the Iraqi archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered, about 25 kilometers southeast of Mosul, the remains of a city next to the village of Balawat. It turned out to be the ancient Imgur-Enlil (whose literal meaning is Enlil favored us ) Neo-Assyrian founded by Ashurnasirpal II during his reign,
To understand the conquest of Mexico we must know the important role that the indigenous allies had in the whole process and that these are not reduced to the tlaxcaltecas , had a great diversity of allies, among them the Tarascans, who came to play such an important role and for this reason are the
Sayhuite It is an Inca archaeological site located about 47 kilometers east of Abancay in Peru. According to historians, the place was a sanctuary related to the cult of water , with a temple that legends describe as being covered in sheets of gold the thickness of a hand. Multiple remains have been
About 12 kilometers north of the city of Arles, in the Provence region of southern France, is the small town of Fontvieille. It is a commune of just 3,500 inhabitants that lives from agriculture and tourism, but until the 5th century AD. It was also the place where the greatest concentration of mech
For centuries, justice has been a spectacle. Quarterings, pyres, crucifixions... Frightful punishments with dissuasive properties. The wheel is a means of torture used from Antiquity until the end of the 18ᵉ century. Throughout history, this torture has taken different forms. In antiquity, the con