The Athens Acropolis was closed to angry tourists again yesterday by striking Greek contract workers. “The Acropolis is our only weapon. Closing it has political and financial costs for the government,” explained archaeologist Aspasia Rarri. A 3,500-year-old cylinder seal was found in the Kelar Mound in northern Iran. A photograph shows the seal and the […]

Were the people of the Botai culture of northern Kazakhstan the first to domesticate horses? Horse bones, teeth, and pottery used to store mare’s milk suggest that people living east of the Ural Mountains lived with horses some 2,000 years before horses are known to have been tamed in Europe. “Once you have horse riding […]