The recent identification of cinnabar, a sulphide of mercury, on Inca textiles, has made specialists wonder about the toxicity of this product and the health impact it could have had. Inca mummy and textiles from Cerro Esmeralda, Iquique region, Chile. SACRIFIED . Since the 1970s, the Andes have
A representation of a camel was discovered for the first time in Upper Paleolithic art, in the Ural steppes. Discovery of the first prehistoric camelid in Paleolithic art. Coming to save frescoes in a prehistoric cave in the southern Urals at the invitation of Russian researchers, a renowned rest
Stone plates discovered on a Paleolithic site in the south of France, which bear engravings of animals or anthropomorphic forms, questioned a team of researchers on their function. They suggest that these stones were used to create some sort of lively nighttime spectacle through fire. Photograph s
Sometimes it happens that an old text it can be transcribed but understanding it correctly is already a little more difficult. In fact, it is something that is not limited to past times; anyone who has read or attempted to read Ulysses by James Joyce knows that it is not exactly an easy book. But th