Some time ago we dedicated an article to the enigmatic Drums of Folkton, found in the tomb of a Neolithic child. There we already pointed out the rarity of these artifacts found in 1889 near the town of Folkton in North Yorkshire:no similar artifacts have been discovered in any European site and, fo
A Sicilian lawyer named Ferdinand Guidano bought in 1859 a black basalt slab that had a series of Egyptian hieroglyphs engraved on it. He probably acquired it in some antique market in Cairo, but the truth is that its origin is not known. In 1877, perhaps after Guidanos death, his family donated the
You can become a Neanderthal, a Roman or a pirate for an instant… what better way to learn? This “art ” of research and dissemination has been developed mainly by the universities, and from them it has become part of the workshops common in some museums. Among many other institutions, in Burgos th
Although archaeologists have found written music texts older than the Greek Epitaph of Sicilus, such as the Hurrian Songs dating from 1400 BC, these are incomplete. Only one Hurrian song, the one designated with the number h.6 and called Hymn of cult Hurrita is almost complete. The oldest surviving