The Sacred Valley of the Incas, located in the Peruvian Andes at an average altitude of 2,800 meters and crossed by the Urubamba River, is home to numerous archaeological sites, cities and towns dating back to the Inca era that extend to the foot of Machu Picchu . One of those places is Moray, whic
On February 22, 1939, the mission of the German Archaeological Institute led by the architect Arnold Nöldeke excavating in the Sumerian city of Uruk, in the southeast of present-day Iraq, found a marble sculpture representing the face of a woman. It was found in the area of the city where the te
Just as the Rosetta Stone was instrumental in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, other writing systems followed a similar process, sometimes more bumpy and convoluted. We have already discussed some of them here before, and in fact, they contributed in part to the decipherment of the one we are deali
The Valsgärde burial site, just outside Uppsala in central Sweden, contains more than 90 Iron Age graves. We could say that Valsgärde is the Scandinavian answer to Sutton Hoo, in England, as shown in the movie The Dig , says Birgitta Berglund, Emeritus Professor of Archeology at the Museum of the No