Latest Historical Discoveries: April 2024

Round up of top five historical finds of April

Welcome to another edition of the Forgotten Footprints newsletter!

Its end of the month, and we’re here to talk about five fascinating finds from our past. Before we proceed, how many of you are James Bond fans?

Have you watched Sean Connery starrer You Only Live Twice?

It shows a volcano used as a laid by James Bond’s enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld to launch spacecraft. Wouldn’t it be cool if like Blofeld, humans could hide inside volcanoes?

Well, as it turns out, people lived in volcanic lava tubes in pre-historic Arabia!

We’ll get to that in a bit, but first let’s look at an exciting discovery about the Neaderthals.

Prehistoric Bear Bone Engraving the Earliest Example of a Neanderthal Culture

Bear bone with incisions made by Neanderthals. Credits: Plonka et.al.

We don’t get tired of discussing Neanderthal news at Forgotten Footprints, do we? I try to keep up with the latest research about our extinct cousins and challenge the popular stereotypes about them.

Around 115,000 to 130,000 year…