The Tollense Bronze Age Battle Over three thousand years ago small bands of warriors came together and traveled a great distance to lay siege to an enemy fortress. Their deeds have been remembered by poets and novelists. The Achaeans were ….
Category: Archaeology
Scientists in Saudi Arabia disclosed this week the discovery of artifacts from a lost 9,000-year-old culture that has been dubbed the “Al-Maqar Civilization”. Al-Maqar is a region in central Saudi Arabia that, until now, had not attracted much scientific interest. ….
Bronze-age warfare in northern Europe is difficult to study. We have no surviving epic poems from that era. Nor do we have any major archaeological sites such as lost cities which may reveal clues about ancient wars. Nonetheless, through the ….
There are many theories about how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, of which more than 100 have been discovered to date. It seems odd to think of “discovering” pyramids, but apparently fewer than 70 were included in the first ….
One doesn’t hear much about Bulgaria here in the U.S. When I was young we thought of Bulgaria as the place where weightlifters and gymnasts came from. Still, Bulgaria was once an important part of ancient European civilization and some ….