Archaeologists working at the Greek city of Selinunte on the island of Sicily have unearthed its craftsmen’s district. “A concentration of certain industries and craftsmen in special districts does not only presuppose proactive planning; it is also based on a certain idea of how a city should best be organized,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel of the […]

Petroglyphs along the banks of Egypt’s Nile River have been dated to 15,000 years ago, using a technology called optically stimulated luminescence. The rock art could be the oldest in Egypt. “The Palaeolithic rock art at Qurta reveals that the well-known cave art of the late Pleistocene in Europe was not an isolated phenomenon. Qurta puts […]