It lived 437 million years ago:it is the oldest scorpion fossil. However, the animal appears strangely modern. Drawing of a Parioscorpio venator reconstructed from two fossils discovered in the United States. A new species of prehistoric scorpion dating to the early Silurian, around 437.5 to 436.
In central Norway, global warming has caused the melting of ice sheets which, as they recede, have freed a multitude of vestiges preserved from the reindeer hunters of the Bronze Age to the Viking era. Exceptional discoveries. Horse hoof snowshoe. Here, a horseshoe; further on, a snowshoe for eq
State, writing, divinities... At the end of the Neolithic era, and even before the first pharaohs had unified the country, the foundations of Egyptian civilization were already there. Front of the so-called Narmer make-up palette. We see a unifying pharaoh of Egypt represented wearing the white cr
Analyzes of ancient medieval pottery unearthed in the Old City of Jerusalem confirm that hand grenades were indeed used as offensive weapons during the Crusades. Examples of medieval grenades, ceramic pots filled with naphtha and other incendiary products lit with a fuse to be thrown at the enemy.