Previously we have given an account here of the excavations in the area of the Palace of Nestor in Pylos, and some of the spectacular discoveries that it is bringing. The director of the project himself, archaeologist Michael Cosmopoulos, from the University of Missouri-San Luis, has recently affi
Barely reopened to the public on Thursday, June 27, 2019 after ten years of closure due to restoration work, the Tomb of the Kings, in the heart of Jerusalem, closed its doors under pressure from a group of ultra-Orthodox… Back on this exceptional archaeological site, one of the four French domains
The International Center for Parietal Art - Lascaux 4 - offers a superb facsimile of the famous decorated cave of Dordogne. The site which opens to the public on December 15, 2016 is inaugurated this Saturday by François Hollande; Science and the Future went there at the end of October. One of the
A new study published by researchers at the University of Edinburgh suggests that prehistoric cave art in Europe is not simply depictions of wild animals. Rather, these animal symbols would represent constellations of stars in the night sky, and would have been used to represent dates and mark event