Yazılıkaya is an approximately 3,200-year-old site that is believed to have played an important religious role in the ancient Hittite Empire. According to a new theory, the reliefs found at the site may have functioned as a calendar to mark days, synodic months and solar years. Yazılıkaya, which in
High-tech archaeological excavations are being prepared in an area that has remained untouched since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE. View of Pompeii against the backdrop of Vesuvius. We expect great discoveries! enthuses Massimo Osanna, Director-General of the Pompeii Archaeological Park (Ital
Art historian Laurence des Cars has just been appointed president of the Louvre in Paris, the most visited museum in the world. Laurence Des Cars at the Musée dOrsay (Paris) on March 24, 2021. At 54, art historian Laurence des Cars, general heritage curator, specialist in 19th and early 20th cen
This investigation, at an early stage in the Northwest of Argentina, is part of a comparative study program, consisting of describing and explaining the effects that the Hispanic colonizations had on different peasant systems at the time of the conquests, halfway between the late Middle Ages and the