The genetic origins of the first Neolithic farmers seemed for a long time to be located in the Near East. A new study published in the journal Cell shows that early farmers actually represented a mix of Ice Age hunter-gatherer groups, stretching from the Near East to southeastern Europe. Researcher
When I was a kid, together with José Luis – my inseparable friend from the E.G.B.–, every Saturday we went to the public library. We got hold of that great volume with green covers and golden capital letters –Ancient Egypt – and we resumed our secret project:writing a book about archaeologists, wear
In 1954, a curious structure was discovered in the northwest of the island of Sardinia, near the town of Porto Torres:a huge stone platform whose oldest parts date from around 4000-3650 BC, that is, before, for example, Stonehenge, and about a thousand years older than the pyramids of Egypt. It is n
More than 170 years after the mysterious disappearance of the British ship HMS Terror in the Canadian Arctic, never-before-seen images of the wreck have been released:they reveal a well-preserved interior that could shed new light on this legendary expedition. First images of the wreck of the Terr