October 12, 1492. It is difficult to find a more universally known historical date than that of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America. Neither that of the French Revolution, nor those of the beginnings/ends of wars, nor in any other episode of the past reach that popularity or their degree
A collection of formulas found in one of the 59 sarcophagi exhumed on October 4, 2020 on the Saqqara plateau, in the heart of the ancient necropolis of Memphis, in Egypt, turned out to be one of the oldest versions of Book of the Dead . Deceased worshiping a crocodile symbol of fertility, detail
The footprints found in the White Sands National Park, in New Mexico, constitute the first unequivocal evidence of human activity in America and allow us to discover life more than 23,000 years ago. The findings are described in a Science journal article co-authored by University of Arizona archaeol
Located on the shores of Lake Copaide (a large lake that was in the center of Boeotia, dried up in the 19th century) northwest of Thebes, the city of Chaeronea was already famous in ancient times for having been the scene of many important battles. But without a doubt the best known of all was the