Plants from the Past
Until the end of 2026 the Hunebed Centre in Borger will be home to a special exhibition about some of the plants which were...
The last European tapir
If you have never seen a tapir, it is difficult to picture what the animal looks like. Imagine a cross between a pig and...
The Vučedol dove
Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic was an archaeological period between the Neolithic and Bronze Ages which saw the transition from stone-working to copper-smelting and the beginnings of...
A violent sacrifice in the bog
Grauballe Man is the world’s best preserved bog body. In fact he is so well preserved that scientists were able to take his fingerprints!
The man...
Castro de Borneiro, Spain
The Castro Culture flourished during the last two centuries of the second millennium BC in the northwest of the Iberian peninsula (today’s Galicia and...
The second largest stone circle in Britain
Stonehenge is the best known prehistoric stone circle in Britain, but it is not the largest. Or even the second largest. First place goes...
Campo de Torres, Spanje
Gijón (Asturia, Spain) is a harbour city on the Gulf of Biscay. To its west lies a mountain ridge around 100 metres high which...
Archaeological museum in Bilbao, Spain
Anyone visiting the city of Bilbao in Northern Spain cannot fail to miss the Guggenheim Museum. It is an enormous building, architecturally extremely interesting,...
Aspendos in Turkey, a well-preserved Roman theatre
Aspendos, near the modern city of Serik in Turkey, is recognised as one of the best-preserved Roman theatres in the world. The site, which...
Secrets of the Permafrost: baby mammoth Yuka
About 39,000 years ago, somewhere in the vast region known today as the Russian steppes, a very young woolly mammoth was fleeing for her...
