Month: April 2024

Egyptian Influence It’s strange to think that even in the 1800’s most of Egypt’s treasures still lay under metres of sand. The nature of the landscape kept the ancient tombs and temples hidden from view until they started to be re-discovered by both the French and English during the Napoleonic wars. Artifacts brought back by…

Prehistory is generally defined as the period of human history before writing had been invented, of course that means very different things in different parts of the world.  The Stone Age begins with the invention of stone tools around 3.3 million years ago, before Homo Sapiens had even evolved! Humans (as in Homo Sapiens), only emerged…