Columbus hoped to find gold in the new land he was seeking, as he believed it would make him wealthy and powerful. He was also seeking a shorter route to Asia, as he believed this would allow him to trade directly with China and India and make even greater profits.
The Swedish island of Gotland is home to the largest concentration of fluted stones in all of Europe, artifacts that are more interesting than they seem. Gotland is the largest island in the Baltic Sea, located off the eastern coast of Sweden and the northern coast of Poland. It is a limestone plat
Recent discoveries made in an ancient cemetery in Amarna, Egypt, question the conditions in which the capital of Akhenaten, the father of Tutankhamun, was really built. Akhenaten, by his reign name Amenophis IV (Neferkheperure) reigned over Egypt for 17 years. In year 5 of his reign, Akhenaten (A
In 1902 some construction workers got quite a scare while working on the construction of some cisterns in Paola, a town in the southeast of Malta, about 5 kilometers from the capital, Valletta. The ground cracked and through the hole they could see that there was a huge cavity there. It was a hypog
8500 years old, the Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg is one of the most exceptional Mesolithic burials encountered in Europe. Discovered in Germany at the beginning of the 20e century, new studies carried out on his burial place have just revealed the ultimate secret... Artistic rendition of the Shaman o