The development of new hunting projectiles by European hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic may have been related to territoriality in a rapidly changing climate, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE by Philippe Crombé of Ghent University, Belgium. As a result of warming occurri
A blue glass Roman bowl has been discovered in a spectacular state of preservation by archaeologists carrying out preventive excavations at a housing site in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It could be 1,800 years old. The bowl discovered among tombs and remains of Roman habitation will probably join a
Recently reconstructed, the so-called by comparison German Stonehenge opened its doors to the public in mid-2016. It is a circular sanctuary similar to the British type, but instead of stone it was built in wood at the end of the third millennium BC . It was discovered in 1999 in Pömmelte, near the
In the heart of Paris, rue Etienne Marcel, stands one of the last still visible vestiges of medieval Paris , the Jean sans Peu tower r. An ostentatious mark of the Burgundian presence in the troubled Paris of the early 15th century, it is a must for anyone passionate about medieval history. It was b