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A Natufian tomb, Israel, 10,000 BC. A man and a puppy are buried together. The human's hand is lying on the little dog. This is a pos...
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Cuciulat - a cave in central Transylvania (Romania), has prehistoric wall paintings that are considered the oldest discovered in Ce...
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An ancient relative of humans discovered in a cave in Africa is a scandidate for the immediate ancestor to the human lineage, an i...
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Sasanian Bronze Figurine, Transcaucasia, 225-650 AD Wild horses were domesticated in the Ponto-Caspian steppe region (today Russi...
In 1974 a strange object was discovered on the riverside of Mures river, near the town of Aiud, Romania. The object similar to a hammer was brought to the Institute of Archaeology from Cluj-Napoca were it was thoroughly studied. Surprisingly, the object was made from alumimium, a metal first obtained in 1808 and produced in large scale after 1885. Aluminium is obtained from bauxite - aluminium oxide found in great quantities in Earth's crust. It has the advantage of resisting corosion. This is the reason the object found near Aiud was so well preserved, having approx. 10,000 years.