Humans have used skins and skins to make clothing and other objects for thousands of years. Animal skins were probably used as a by-product of hunting as early as the Stone Age and were made more durable by smoking or fats. Leather was also of great importance to people in the Middle Ages. Leather a
One of the most important archaeological sites in the world is that of the Austrian town of Hallstatt, located on the shore of the lake of the same name and at the foot of Hoher Dachstein, the highest peak in the Salzkammergut Alps. There, a salt mine was exploited since prehistoric times, which is
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
The sarcophagi unearthed in wells in Saqqara present, despite their 2,500 years, a perfect state of preservation • AFP / KHALED DESOUKI Egyptian archaeologists descend, hanging from a rope, into these narrow burial shafts, measuring up to 12 m deep. They have just discovered in one of them, on t