An unpublished trilingual inscription from the Achaemenid period has just been discovered in Iran, near the tomb of Darius, king of the Persians. The Achaemenid inscription had remained hidden for more than two millennia under lichens. These are four lines of text, finely incised in the rock, whi
Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BC, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, since it did not leave the country for half a millennium and it would take until the 11th century for the Muslims to bring it to Europe, specifically to Al Andalus. Until then, other support
Until June 7, 2020, the film The Last Passage, 3D images of the Chauvet cave made in 2015, can be seen free of charge and unlimited on a dedicated platform. In these strange times of pandemic, art and storytelling play a crucial role in our societies insists the prehistorian Jean-Michel Geneste. T
A funerary boat was unearthed in the enclosure of the necropolis of Abusir, a funerary complex near Cairo in Egypt. Explanations from naval archaeologist Patrice Pomey. Remains of a III-IV Dynasty funerary bark found at the site of Abusir in Egypt. NECROPOLIS. Stranded on a bed of stones, this fu