Göbekli Tepe: the "skull cult" mystery finds a very ordinary explanation
For years, the human bones scattered through the great enclosures of Göbekli Tepe fed the idea of a macabre skull cult. The discovery of th…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
For years, the human bones scattered through the great enclosures of Göbekli Tepe fed the idea of a macabre skull cult. The discovery of th…
Read →In October 2026, the National Museum of the Eastern Carpathians announced the discovery of a female clay figurine roughly 6,500 years old, …
Read →The recumbent slab at the heart of Stonehenge, long attributed to Wales, in fact comes from northeast Scotland. A 2024 study in Nature date…
Read →In the Alentejo, a 16-hectare ditched complex built between 3400 and 2000 BCE reveals an inter-regional ceremonial centre: African ivory, S…
Read →In Egypt's Minya governorate, Predynastic tombs with tapered walls illuminate the path from simple pits to the monuments of Giza.
Read →A study published in Nature reveals that Yersinia pestis was killing Siberian hunter-gatherer communities 5,500 years ago, long before citi…
Read →More than four thousand years ago, a vast city stretched along the Indus, in present-day Pakistan. Mohenjo-daro held tens of thousands of i…
Read →Near Târgu Neamț, LiDAR-equipped drones pierced the canopy and unveiled Copper Age fortifications invisible from the ground: defensive ditc…
Read →At Jabal al-Tayr in Middle Egypt, a vast necropolis five millennia old reveals the evolution of funerary architecture, from the tombs of ea…
Read →At this twin site of Göbekli Tepe, a monolith nearly 12,000 years old bears a sharply defined human face. Never seen before.
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