- 1519: Magellan sets out from Spain with five ships to find a western route to the Spice Islands.
- 1520: Magellan reaches the Strait of Magellan, which he names after himself.
- 1521: Magellan enters the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first European to do so.
- 1521: Magellan is killed in a battle with the natives of the Philippine Islands.
- 1522: The remaining ships of Magellan's expedition complete the circumnavigation of the world, returning to Spain.
One of the most curious, interesting and controversial archaeological pieces preserved by the British Museum is the so-called Kurkh Monolith. It is a fairly large Assyrian stela that bears inscribed descriptions of King Shalmaneser III. The information it provides is essential to understand the sove
With the Old Kingdom, a long period of peace and prosperity, Egypt experienced its first golden age, which resulted in colossal architecture. Two centuries of instability followed, before the country regained its power under the 11th dynasty. Statuette of the crouching scribe in the Louvre Museum.
Researchers have made an exceptional discovery south of Luxor:a rock wall covered with proto-hieroglyphs, which prefigure the writing of the ancient Egyptians. On the cliff of the site of Al-Khawi, appear, among others, two storks back to back and a bald ibis bird above. EGYPTOLOGY. They offered
Archaeological investigations carried out in Mozia (on the current island of Saint Pantaleon), the Phoenician city that flourished in the extreme west of Sicily between the 8th and 4th centuries BC, have revealed a large sanctuary delimited by a circular temenos in the center of which is a sacred po