On February 1976 archaeologists found a sculpted turtle head with magnetic properties in the ceremonial center of Izapa in the…
Sculpture
The monumental rock relief excavated by the Hittites on Mount Sipylus more than 3,000 years ago
When he speaks of Laconia in the third book of his Description of Greece Pausanias comments that the inhabitants of…
Ibn Wahshiyya, the Nabataean who could have translated Egyptian hieroglyphs before Champollion.
Today we are going to discover an almost unknown individual, a good representative from other times, who may have been…
How Galileo Galilei made calculations for the Statue of Philip IV in Madrid
Does a sculptor have to resort to mathematics to make a statue? Moreover, would he need a wise man like…
World’s oldest portrait, carved in ivory 26,000 years ago
Near the Czech town of Dolní Věstonice in Moravia is the archaeological site of the same name. A site that,…