The first evidence of the use of bows and arrows by prehistoric people outside the African continent has been attested in the tropical forests of Sri Lanka, in South Asia. They date back 48,000 years. Shuttle, monkey tooth punch and arrowhead, from Fa-Hien La cave in Sri Lanka (45-48,000 years old
What could the spectacular presence of a decapitated horse in a Merovingian necropolis in southern Germany mean? She is no doubt intended to signal the high rank of her master, a warrior who must also have been a landowner. Burial of a decapitated horse, found in the Merovingian necropolis of Knit
Study of a model racing chariot on display at the British Museum provides little-known insight into how they might have been built in ancient Rome. 1st miniature Roman racing chariot century of our era, discovered in the Tiber (Rome), in 1894, and today exhibited in the British Museum (London). Th
Near the French town of Montesquieu-Avantès, in the Midi-Pyrénées region, there is an underground system of caves, some of which are connected, and which present engravings and cave paintings from the Magdalenian period , dated around 17,000-10,000 BC In one of them, that of Tuc dAudoubert, a uniqu