Zippalanda It was one of the main administrative and religious centers of the Hittites , an empire that during the 17th to 12th centuries B.C. brought together different city-states of Anatolia rivaling Babylon and Egypt thanks to its military technology and diplomatic skill. It was not until the l
According to the newspaper The Siberian Times, the sensational discovery was made three months ago in the Denisova Cave, the place where the phalanx of a hitherto unknown human species, the Denisovan hominid, was found in 2010 by the team of archaeologists from the Novosibirsk Institute of Archeolog
One of the best known ancient legends is that of the Phrygian king Midas, who turned everything he touched into gold. According to Aristotle, he would die of hunger due to the impossibility of touching any food without it being transformed into the precious metal. The problem is that there are at l
Archaeologists from the Ca Foscari University found for the first time prehistoric obsidian mines from the Bronze Age, located in Georgia. Although obsidian mining is known to have been a common practice in prehistory, pits dug for this purpose have never been found until now. In Europe, most of th