Bronze ceremonial weapons over 2,500 years old have been unearthed for the first time in the Arabian Peninsula. Two copper and bronze quivers dated to the Iron Age (900-600 BC) discovered on the Mudhmar site in the Sultanate of Oman. ARABIA. Quivers, arrows, daggers, axes… An exceptional set of br
The absence of monsoon rains at the source of the Nile was the cause of migrations and the disappearance of entire settlements in the late Roman province of Egypt. Professor of ancient history Sabine Huebner, from the University of Basel, has for the first time compared this demographic evolution wi
All royal mummies found in the 19th and 20th centuries have long been opened for study. With one exception:Egyptologists have never dared to open the mummy of Pharaoh Amenhotep I (also known as Amenhotep I or Dyeserkara Amenhotep). Not because of any mythical curse, but because she is perfectly dr
Archaeologists from the University of Western Australia (UWA) have determined that peoples living in ancient north-western Arabia built burial avenues long-distance paths -large roads flanked by thousands of funerary monuments linking oases and pastures-, suggesting a high degree of social and econo