A circular temple and the remains of an Aztec ceremonial ball court have just been unearthed in the Mexican capital. A Mexican archaeologist comments on the recent discovery of a circular temple in central Mexico City. The foundations of an ancient Aztec temple as well as a portion of a ball cour
The transition of humans from hunter-gatherers to farmers probably occurred at the same time in several places. But there is one in particular where archaeologists found evidence of that transformation. It is a place in present-day Syria, the site of Tell Abu Hureyra, located in the Euphrates valley
Archaeologists from the French mission who have been working since 2012 at the Kunara site in Iraqi Kurdistan have brought to light the remains of a hitherto unknown city some 4,000 years old that prospered on the borders of the first empire Mesopotamian, the Akkadian. Located in the foothills of t
In present-day Iran there are numerous ancient inscriptions from the Achaemenid period, for only one outside the country located in the Fortress of Van in Turkey, and commissioned by Xerxes I in the 5th century BC. The Persians of the time of Darius I and his son Xerxes I used a type of cuneiform w