Cradle of Civilizations, Trypillia

"In October 1882 there were ploughed up near Vettersfelde in Lower Lusatia and acquired for the Antiquarium in Berlin the fragments of a great...

American professor of literature Joseph Campbell in his famous book The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology shares quite an interesting observation on the culture of the area and...

According to the Wiltshire Museum, the man buried close to Stonehenge in the Bush Barrow, was given Britain’s richest Bronze Age burial. The Bush...

The theory that the original Yin-Yang symbol described the change of a pole’s shadow length during a year corresponds well with the meaning of...

“Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,” is the opening line of the Iliad. Achilles was the warrior who became the very symbol...

The two birds on the plaque were identified as cranes by Gerhard Friedrich Müller (although others see in them herons which is hard to...

"Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognised that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first...

Mikhail Gerasimov (1907 - 1970) was a Soviet archaeologist and anthropologist who developed the first technique of forensic sculpture based on findings of anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, and forensic science. He studied the skulls and...

In her PhD dissertation 'Crucible Steel in Central Asia: Production, Use, and Origin' presented at the University of London (available at Academia.edu), Anna Marie...

The city of Darabgerd was one of the most famous of the Persian cities. Its ruins are located 9 km southwest of the modern...