from showcaves blog:
We are pretty much astonished. This cave was closed to the public years ago, then opened on a very limited basis and finally a replica was built and inaugurated by the Spanish King. Then the cave was closed completely.
Now the Spanish ministry of culture had news for all tourists and art lovers: the [...]
Romanian experts have discovered the most ancient cave paintings found to date in Central Europe, aged up to 35,000 years old, Romanian and French scientists said Sunday.
The pictures show animals including a buffalo, a horse and even a rhinoceros. “It is for the first time in Central Europe that… art this old has been [...]
A 5,500-year-old leather shoe has been found in a cave in Armenia. The shoe – 1,000 years older than Giza’s Great Pyramid and 400 years older than Stonehenge – is perfectly preserved and was found complete with shoelaces. It is believed to be the oldest example of enclosed leather footwear, out-dating the shoes worn by [...]
During the extensive period of time recorded in the Nerja Cave between 30000 and 3000 years before present, which corresponds to the Late Pleistocene and Holocene lower end and half the rooms on the entrance to the Cave of Nerja were occupied by populations modern humans (Homo sapiens) during the stages of prehistory known as [...]
I write to remember you “The Fourth Hypogean Archeology Congress” that will be on the air by NapoliUnderground Channel on 21th and 22th of November.
http://www.napoliunderground.org/it/nug-channel.html
The congress program:
http://www.napoliunderground.org/it/forum.html?func=view&catid=8&id=11
Best regards Fulvio NapoliUnderground
This is the third time, that Commissione Cavita’ Artificiali SSI, the comission for artifical caves in Italy, visits Jordan for exploration purposes. They give support to the University of Florence. Recently they discovered a cave church with five graves in the wall, probably of Byzantine period, with remains of frescoes and a cross painted.
more here [...]