A remarkable female statuette carved 23,000 years ago has just been revealed. It was discovered this summer during archaeological digs in Amiens. This Venus with face represented without features, arms just sketched , will join the rare examples of these portable works of art unearthed since the 1
A blue glass Roman bowl has been discovered in a spectacular state of preservation by archaeologists carrying out preventive excavations at a housing site in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It could be 1,800 years old. The bowl discovered among tombs and remains of Roman habitation will probably join a
When Herodotus , in the 5th century BC. C., he undertook the task of describing Egypt in the Histories of him , a certain topic in particular fascinated him, and so he stopped to write a long, detailed and explicit study on the different types of mummification and its techniques (II.85-90). Beyo
Between the 9th and 11th centuries, a type of sword with a factory mark that gave it a symbol of quality, both for the steel with which it was made and its origin, became popular in northern Europe and Scandinavia. They are called Ulfberht swords because they all bear the inscription +VLFBERHT+ or