In contrast, the Neolithic Age began approximately 10,000 years ago and is characterized by the development of agriculture and settled societies. During this period, humans transitioned from a nomadic lifestyle to a more sedentary one and began cultivating crops and domesticating animals. As a result, their artistic expressions shifted from cave art to other forms, such as pottery, sculptures, and megalithic structures.
Ceramic shards discovered in Arad, in the Judean Desert, show that the use of writing was already widespread in the kingdom of Judah, as early as 600 BCE. The writing and compilation of the biblical texts could therefore have begun earlier than we thought. Inscriptions on ceramic shards (ostraca) d
Among the peat and sediments left by the river, a series of remains have been found (the result of excavations carried out by the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Department of Historic Preservation and Greifswald University) that tell us about a battle of an unprecedented magnitude. at those dates, around th
Every history and archeology buff knows who the Nabataeans were, the builders of the spectacular Petra in present-day Jordan, whose kingdom was conquered by the Romans in 106 AD. A little further south, already in the Arabian Peninsula, there was another powerful and older kingdom that, curiously,
A Chilean clinic has analyzed 15 mummies from the Chinchorro people, one of the precursors of mummification. Chilean researchers have performed a scan on 15 mummies from the Chinchorro people. SCANNING. Fifteen of the worlds oldest mummies were scanned in mid-December 2016 to reveal some or all