These structures are 2000 years older than the Egyptian pyramids.
These structures are 2000 years older than the Egyptian pyramids.
2,000 years older than Stonehenge.
They hated creepy crawlies as much as we do.
Further evidence of Iraq’s rich architectural heritage.
If developers had their way, much history would be lost to us.
I always find it a little disconcerting when I discover that something exists in the world that up to this point I knew nothing about. That’s the height of arrogance, I know. It’s crazy to expect to know everything. But it always makes me wonder what else I’ve been missing all along. Case in point: …
If I had the luxury of having any career in the world (and some magic guarantee that I’d be able to make a living at it), I would be an experimental archeologist. I love to learn by doing, and there’s no other job in the world that allows you to do just that to such …
Approximately 40,800 years ago, someone, possibly a Neandertal, painted the oldest known cave art in a place called the Cave of El Castillo in northern Spain. This is the first evidence we have of someone saying, “Death shall not silence me.” And we’ve been saying it ever since. Wanting to survive beyond your expiration date …
If I were an historian, I think an interesting exercise would be to see if I could pinpoint one day in history, just one single precious day, when no country on earth was at war. I think it would be a lot harder to find than any of us would care to believe. Having said …
The View from a Drawbridge 