ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
Monumental discoveries in Iklaina, including an open-air pagan sanctuary, have reinforced the view that this ancient Greek town was no backwater as had been thought, but a major center of Mycenaean culture – that throws back the formation of the earliest complex states in ancient Greece by hundreds of years. Continue reading “Linear B tablet of Iklaina, Greece; the earliest-known government record in Europe”
Archaeologists from the University of Cambridge, the Ephorate of the Cyclades and the Cyprus Institute have completed their four-year programme of excavations at the settlement adjoining the prehistoric sanctuary on Keros in the Cycladic Islands of Greece, the earliest maritime sanctuary in the world (2750-2240BC). Continue reading “Keros Island, Greece; the earliest maritime sanctuary in the world and its magnificent finds”
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international research team, led from Uppsala University, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalithic tombs on Ireland and in Sweden. Continue reading “Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age”
The Researchers María Martinón-Torres and José María Bermúdez de Castro have co-authored a research about the hominids from Tongzi which was published in the Journal of Human Evolution from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana(CENIEH) which reveals that Tongzi teeth do not fit the morphological pattern of traditional Homo erectus and that these teeth could potentially represent the highly targeted “Denisovans”. Continue reading “Tongzi hominids are potentially a new human ancestor in Asia”
Here we shortly present monuments from the Miyun region of Beijing, China. Continue reading “China – Beijing – Miyun”
Here we shortly present monuments from the Chaoyang, Huairou and Yanqing regions of Beijing, China. Continue reading “China – Beijing – Chaoyang, Huairou and Yanqing”
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