2025年1月3日 · French scientists have identified a unique engraving in the Ségognole 3 cave, located in the famous sandstone massif south of Paris. This engraving, dating back to the Upper Paleolithic, could be the oldest three-dimensional map ever found. The research, published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, reveals how hunter-gatherers over 20,000 years ago shaped …

2024年10月9日 · Located at the northern tip of the Sirmione peninsula, on the shores of majestic Lake Garda in Italy, the ruins of the Roman villa known as Grotte di Catullo represent one of the most valuable archaeological sites from the Roman era in the north of the country. Built between the end of the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD, this ancient residence …

2025年1月9日 · A recent study published by scholars Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak analyzes the possible function of pyrophyllite discs found in southern Ukraine. These medieval artifacts may have served as tools, ritual objects, or even advanced navigation instruments. The significance of this stu

El Jardín Real Sasánida de Qaṣr-e Šīrīn, un paraíso perdido que inspiró el diseño de jardines desde Persia hasta Al-Andalus. Durante siglos, el complejo monumental de Qaṣr-e Šīrīn, ubicado en la provincia de Kermanshah, Irán, ha sido objeto de estudio por historiadores y arqueólogos.

2025年1月5日 · A Solid Fragment of Tyrian Purple in Roman Baths in England Tyrian purple fragment found at Carlisle, England. Credit: Wardell Armstrong. During excavations at the ancient Roman baths in Luguvalium (modern Carlisle, England), archaeologists uncovered a solid fragment of Tyrian purple, an extremely valuable pigment associated with the Roman imperial …

2024年11月19日 · The so-called Aztec “death whistle” is an instrument distinguished by producing a chilling sound, comparable to a person’s blood-curdling scream, and has been the subject of study for its possible ritual uses and psychological effects on listeners. A recent analysis by the University of Zurich has r

2024年11月26日 · Recent archaeological excavations have uncovered a basalt tablet with inscriptions in an unknown language near Lake Bashplemi, in the Dmanisi region of Georgia. The discovery is significant not only because of the rarity of the material found but also because it could reveal unknown aspects of the ancient civilizations that inhabited the Caucasus.

2025年1月9日 · The possibility of time travel has fascinated humanity for centuries, fueling both literary imagination and scientific debates. In a study published in Classical and Quantum Gravity, physicist Lorenzo Gavassino explores the thermodynamic and quantum foundations that would sustain life and physical processes in a universe with closed timelike curves (CTCs).

2025年1月5日 · Un año más repasamos los descubrimientos arqueológicos del año que acaba de finalizar. En esta ocasión hemos seleccionado 14 de entre aquellos que tuvimos ocasión de reseñar, y que tuvieron especial impacto entre nuestros lectores. Todos ellos son descubrimientos asombrosos y emocionantes, que n

2024年12月12日 · An international team of researchers has confirmed through uranium-thorium dating that the iconic hand paintings in Maltravieso Cave, in Cáceres, Spain, could be some of the oldest ever created, possibly by Neanderthals.This discovery establishes this cave as a key site for understanding the origins of human art and its evolution.