The presence of menhirs is not common in India, although there are some examples in the states of Megalaya, Nagaland and Andhra Pradesh. In 2010, a team of researchers from the countrys Archaeological Survey discovered 171 more in the state of Mizoram, in northeastern India. They are located in a f
Recently Bulgarian archaeologists found two new votive tablets depicting the Thracian Horseman in the ancient Byzantine city of Abritus, in the northeast of the country. They are the latest of many discoveries related to this indigenous deity, whose character and function are still unclear, despite
A new examination of skeletons found in southern Egypt indicates that the first episodes of violence would not have been exceptional events. For specialists, the sharing of the same environment between several cultural groups would have favored conflicts. Archival photograph illustrating the doubl
This small piece of carved ocher would have been used as a pencil more than 10,000 years ago. This carved ocher pebble could be one of the very first pencils used by a human. It was near the town of Scarborough, in the north-west of England that archaeologists from the University of York discove