To the south of Tuscany, around the towns of Sovana, Sorano and Pitigliano, there is a network of roads or paths carved into the living rock, whose authors are known to have been the Etruscans or peoples before them, but it is unknown absolutely its original function. They are called Via Cava or Ca
Some of the earliest legal codes were formulated in the ancient Middle East. The Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites all had their own laws. Among them, the Code of Hammurabi is perhaps the best known, but there have been many earlier codes of law. The firs
It is not something that happens every day, discovering biographies of real people from 3,500 years ago, which is why the statue of King Idrimi is still today one of the most important finds in history. The phrase is from James Fraser, one of the curators of the Middle East department of the Britis
On the road that connects the ancient cities of Mycenae and Tiryns with Epidaurus in the Greek Argolis, there are four bridges built during the Bronze Age that are still in use. One of these bridges is known to be considered one of the oldest bridges in the world, and as the oldest of the European