Obtaining a new dating has just determined when the earliest European presence dates back to the American continent, five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Studied for several years by the Norwegian explorer Helge Instad (1899-2001) and his wife, the archaeologist Anne Stine-Insgstad, a small
In Britain, analyzes underway to determine the age of the enigmatic Cerne Abbas colossus have just delivered their very first results:the famous giant figure carved in chalk probably dates back to the Middle Ages. The Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, UK. 228 meters of linear development under the sky
Archaeologists found a bronze vessel last October during excavations of a 2,000-year-old tomb in Luoyang, China. Inside the vessel was 3.5 liters of a yellowish liquid that, at first, they thought might have been rice wine, due to its strong smell of alcohol. Remains of similar liquids have been fo
A llama carved from a spondylus shell and a cylindrical gold foil object are the contents of a carved stone box, an offering, found at the bottom of Lake Titicaca, according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Free University of Brussels. The offering, found near an island in