A well-preserved leather shoe reported to be a few hundred years older than the leather shoes worn by Otzi the Iceman has been discovered in a pit in a cave in Armenia. “Enormous similarities exist between the manufacturing technique and style of this (Armenian) shoe and those found across Europe at later periods, suggesting that […]

Closed for the past eight years, Spain’s Caves of Altamira will re-open to a limited number of visitors, despite scientists’ warnings that human warmth and breath damages the prehistoric paintings. As many as 3,000 people a day visited the famed caves in the 1970s. “Altamira is an asset we cannot do without,” said Miguel Angel […]