A study reveals that the swords found in European Bronze Age tombs and metal deposits had not only a ceremonial function, but that they had all been used in combat. Bronze Age Sword Set Discovered in 2015 in a tomb at the Minoan site of Pylos, in Greece, a 3,500-year-old seal now considered a mas
Winter winds associated with dust storms are said to have contributed to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia. Imprint of the cylinder seal of Ibni-sharrum, scribe of Shar-kali-sharri, masterpiece of Akkadian glyptics (Louvre Museum) Between the 24th and 22nd centuries BCE, the Akka
More than 10,000 years ago, a person undertook a short journey with a young child whom she carried at arms length over muddy and slippery ground. Researchers have attempted to reconstruct his journey. In this Ice Age scene, a woman holding a child on the shores of an ancient lake leaves footprints
Excavations carried out on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea have discovered some 300 small stones decorated with different motifs, dating from the Stone Age, some 5,000 years ago. Many of them are sun stones , round in shape and with circular motifs, already known to researchers sinc