On February 22, 1939, the mission of the German Archaeological Institute led by the architect Arnold Nöldeke excavating in the Sumerian city of Uruk, in the southeast of present-day Iraq, found a marble sculpture representing the face of a woman. It was found in the area of the city where the te
Although the main attraction of Malta resides in its monumental heritage, fundamentally from the Modern Age to the Contemporary, also appearing in the guides, and with capital letters, the abundant megalithic constructions scattered throughout the archipelago. It is known that this small group of
The ancient Greeks accepted infanticide, the Romans could punish adultery with death. As for medieval judges, they inflicted on rapists a sentence proportional to the status of the victim! But not all crimes are eternal:today homosexuality or abortion are no longer on the list. The list of crimes
Italian and Kurdish archaeologists have made what they call exciting discoveries in the Kurdistan region of Iraq:ten new rock-cut reliefs showing the Assyrian king and the gods of Assyria sculpted along a large rock-cut irrigation canal. These are the results of the Kurdish-Italian Faida Archaeolo