The cave paintings of the European caves of Lascaux and Altamira are among the most impressive in the world. But they are not the oldest, nor are they the most prolific. If we stick to antiquity, we must consider those discovered three years ago on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, which would dat
In 1902 some construction workers got quite a scare while working on the construction of some cisterns in Paola, a town in the southeast of Malta, about 5 kilometers from the capital, Valletta. The ground cracked and through the hole they could see that there was a huge cavity there. It was a hypog
After three years of restoration and the installation of a lighting system, the Eupalino aqueduct tunnel, one of the jewels of ancient engineering, reopens to the public on the Greek island of Samos. Samos was, in the middle of the sixth century B.C. a prosperous city that had built a high reputati
Zippalanda It was one of the main administrative and religious centers of the Hittites , an empire that during the 17th to 12th centuries B.C. brought together different city-states of Anatolia rivaling Babylon and Egypt thanks to its military technology and diplomatic skill. It was not until the l