Amarna (Tell el-Amarna) was the city that the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten ordered to be built to make it his new capital, center of the cult of the new and heretical god Aton, in the middle of the 14th century BC. It was located halfway between the other two great cities of the time, Thebes and Memp
Archaeologists from the University of Leicester discovered the first material evidence of the invasion of Britannia (the name by which the Romans knew the island of Great Britain) by Julius Caesar in 54 BC Based on this evidence, they suggest that the initial landing of the Roman troops was at Pegw
More than 70 works of parietal art dating back around 14,000 years have just been revealed in northern Spain in the Atxurra cave. Rock engravings discovered in the cave of Atxuraa, in the Spanish Basque Country. Among the prehistoric bestiary, many bison, including one pierced by jet weapons (botto
A unique photographic collection is currently being digitized in Lebanon. Exceptional archaeological and ethnographic testimonies of a Middle East that has now disappeared. Aerial photograph of the ancient site of Palmyra, Syria, taken by one of its pioneers, Antoine Poidebard, in 1938. Treasure