Archaeologists explore Emperor Nero’s rediscovered “Sphinx Room”
Rome / A team of archaeologists has discovered a new richly decorated room at a palatial complex in Rome that belonged to Emperor Nero and had been hidden …
What secrets do mummies hold? Science unravels all at Turin Egypt exhibition
Gonzalo Sánchez / Turin (Italy) / Kha and Merit lived in Egypt more than three thousand years ago and now their mummified bodies at the Egyptian Museum in …
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(Español) Seis tumbas tardorromanas en un solar de Palencia
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THE OLDEST KNOW DRAWING WAS MADE ABOUT 73,000 YEARS AGO
Paris / The oldest known drawing was made by Homo sapiens about 73,000 years ago, about 30,000 before the abstract and figurative specimens discovered so far …
IN THE TOLEDO HOUSES OF THE 15TH CENTURY
Toledo (Spain) / The interesting thing about the exhibition ‘De puertas para adentro’ is that the objects of the Toledo houses of the 15th and 16th …
300 TOMBS OF THE QING DINASTY ARE FOUND NEXT TO OLYMPIC AREA IN BEIJING
Beijing / Two complexes with around 300 tombs, which in some cases preserve skeletons and funeral items, have been unearthed in the north of Beijing, near the …
A STUDY SHOES THAT THE PEOPLE BURIED IN STONEHENGE WERE COMING FROM WALES
London / Some of the people whose burned remains are buried in the Neolithic monument of Stonehenge, located in the south of England, originally came from West …
MEDINA AZAHARA, THE CITY THAT SHINES
Córdoba/ “The city that shines”. This is the literal meaning of Medina Azahara, the name that the first caliph of Al-Ándalus, Abderramán III, …
HOW SEE A PRE-HISPANIC TEMPLE FROM A PARKING OF A MEXICAN SUPERMARKERT
The parking lot of a shopping center in Mexico City has opened a window to the pre-Hispanic past after the discovery in 2014 of a temple dedicated to the …
THE REMAINS OF 111 CHILDREN SLAUGHTERED IN THE PRE-COLUMBIAN PERU
A new excavation carried out in northern Peru by a research team, funded by the National Geographic Society, found the remains of 111 children slaughtered in …
A NEW SPACE FOUND IN CHEOPS ENLARGES ENIGMA OF THE PYRAMIDS
Paris / The discovery within the Great Pyramid of Cheops of a new space about 30 meters long and of unknown use enlarges the enigma around these monuments and …
NEANDERTAL CHILDREN GROWN SO SLOW AS OURS
Madrid / Neanderthals and Homo sapiens not only shared habitats and ways of life. The intelligent species extinguished 40,000 years ago had a pattern of growth …
THE MYSTERIES OF OSIRIS THROUGH EGYPT’S MARINE TREASURES
Zurich (Switzerland) / Isabel Saco // An exhibition at Rietberg Museum resurrects “Mysteries of Osiris”, one of the greatest founding myths of …
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CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND 2,000-YEAR-OLD MEAT SOUP
A vessel containing meat soup, prepared more than 2,000 years ago, was discovered during archaeological excavations in the central Chinese province of Henan, …
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THE OLDEST MANUSCRIPT IN GREAT BRITAIN IS A DEBTS REGISTER
British archaeologists have unearthed a debts register, dated January 8 57 AD and recorded in a wood tablet, in London: it is the oldest manuscript found in …