The high Bronze Age saw the first emergence of complex cultures. Successive innovations in agriculture had produced a food surplus, perhaps the first meaningful one in history, and these foodstuffs could support the first cities. These complex urban centers appeared in four different places, developing alongside each other essentially at the same time along what
Archaeologists in the village of Stobreč in Croatia have unearthed an ancient Greek settlement. What makes this find especially exciting is that the oldest finds date back some 3,500 years, placing them firmly in the era of the Greek Bronze Age, the era of the Trojan War. This golden age for Greece saw a series
The idea of being visited by aliens is an appealing one, and it is not hard to see why. It would allow those who believe to feel that they are part of something much bigger, that there is a wider universe out there waiting, one which renders trivial all our domestic problems, from a planet
Police in Iran have broken up a gang of antiquities smugglers and recovered priceless artifacts from the time of Jesus. The treasures, which would have been disappeared into private collections, include two golden masks from the Elamite culture. Suspicions were first raised in Ganaveh Port in the province of Bushehr. Police tracked the gang to
We may have grown up thinking it was true, but Columbus was not the first European to make contact with North America when he sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Norse sailors had been crossing the Atlantic for centuries by that time, but new research suggests it may have been for even longer than thought.
In Panoria, in the province of Granada in Spain lies a rock necropolis that is truly ancient. At 5,600 years old, it was constructed well before the Egyptians got started with their pyramids. There are many questions still unanswered about the complex, the people who built it and their society, but now we have one