In the year 1812, a spectacular discovery was made in an orchard in the village of Zenjak in Slovenia, near Negau (Negova) and the Austrian border. 26 bronze helmets, of which 23 are preserved today, of Etruscan origin and of the vetulonic type (today also called Negau type). That is, bronze and wit
Near the Czech town of Dolní Věstonice in Moravia is the archaeological site of the same name. A place that, since before systematic excavations began in 1924, had already provided researchers with abundant prehistoric materials from the Gravettian period (which took place between 27,000 and 20,000
In Arnhem Land, an Australian Aboriginal region, researchers have discovered previously unknown rock paintings that are between 6,000 and 9,400 years old. A marsupial of the Macropodidae family. Magnificent cave paintings, including representations of Macropodidae, a particular family of marsupia
The Near and Middle East are full of cities of proven antiquity, such as Byblos, Sidon, Jericho, Susa... Less well known is the city of Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, at the center of which is a fortified mound that is said to be the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the world:the Erbil Cita