While not rejoicing in the devastating effects of global warming, researchers do acknowledge that it has created an opportunity to fill the huge gaps in our understanding of life in the mountains several millennia ago. The melting of the glaciers reveals treasures buried for a long time. Conserva
In the Italian city of Barletta, located on the shores of the Adriatic Sea in the Apulia region, and in front of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher there is a colossal statue of more than 5 meters high that represents a Roman emperor. It is not known how he came to the city or where he came from, no
In 2015 we started a research project in the Quirimbas archipelago, north of Mozambique[1] (Fig.1). His goal was to learn about the role of this area, hitherto considered secondary, within the Swahili trade. Swahili are the populations that occupied the coastal and pre-coastal strip that extends fro
A leaf-shaped point dated to at least 65,000 years old has been discovered in the famous Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany. Her study suggests that she was attached to a spear and used in great hunts. Foliaceous point of the cave of Hohle Fels, in the Swabian Jura, in Germany. Examination of t