A delicate Palaeolithic Venus has just been discovered in the Bryansk region of Russia. Two-sided views of the Venus of Bryansk (Russia). IVORY. Barely 5 cm high, carved in the ivory of a woolly mammoth tusk, a new Paleolithic Venus dated -23,000 years ago was recently discovered in Siberia. With
During the 17th and 18th centuries many pirates took over Ile Sainte-Marie (Santa Maria Island), off the coast eastern Africa and near Madagascar, as a home and even as a place for “eternal rest”, as there is still an incredible pirate cemetery there. The location attracted pirates because it was no
State, writing, divinities... At the end of the Neolithic era, and even before the first pharaohs had unified the country, the foundations of Egyptian civilization were already there. Front of the so-called Narmer make-up palette. We see a unifying pharaoh of Egypt represented wearing the white cr
It may seem strange to many that Egypt is today one of the largest wine producers in the world, with an annual amount similar to that of Britain. But the fact is that wine production has been linked to Egypt for many centuries. Obviously it was not the ancient Egyptians who invented it. Archaeologi