Polish archaeologists discovered an anthropomorphic figurine in one of the oldest cities in the world:Çatalhöyük in Turkey. This is the first such object made of bone known from this site. The find is about 8 thousand years old. The discovery was made at one of the most famous archaeological sites
American researchers have provided evidence of significant pollution of certain drinking water reservoirs at the ancient Mayan site of Tikal. The mercury and algae identified made the water at the site undrinkable. The site was abandoned at the end of the 9th century CE. Classified as a UNESCO Wo
We already counted in a previous article as in the year 409 B.C. Carthaginian troops razed the Greek city of Selinunte in Sicily, killing or taking prisoner its more than 20,000 residents. A few thousand remained in the city as tributaries of Carthage. Years later, in 250 BC, the entire population w
Humans settled in the southwestern Amazon and even experimented with agriculture much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of researchers. It has long been known that complex societies arose in the Llanos de Moxos, in the southwestern Bolivian Amazon, around 2,500 yea