After being dazzled by its trailers over the last few months, the time has finally arrived for Empire of the Ants to scuttle onto Steam. It’s one of the most intriguing strategy titles I’ve seen in a long time, and it’s gone pretty viral in the build up to launch thanks to its photorealistic visuals. However, on the day of its full release, it doesn’t seem like it’s setting the world alight. Continue reading Empire of the Ants is like Command and Conquer with bugs, and it’s out now MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best RTS games, Best strategy games, Best upcoming PC games

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Some of the world’s earliest-known graffiti artists in Italy carved into rock tens of thousands of images from the mundane to the mystical, recording scenes from the twilight of the Stone Age to the dawn of civilization. A Walk Amongst the Petroglyphs of Galicia: Prehistoric Designs Trace Life and Times of Bronze Age Europeans 4,000-Year-Old Rock Art From Unknown Culture Uncovered in Venezuela The artists who carved the Valcamonica rock art depicted animals, scenes of hunting and fishing, weapons and tools, war, magic, buildings, agriculture, and human and divine figures. The people left a rich heritage of petroglyphs in Lombardy from which scholars are learning about the ways of life, economies, beliefs and societies of people in the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Copper, Bronze, Iron and Roman ages. In 1979, UNESCO declared the Camonica Valley petroglyphs a World Heritage site, the first such site in Italy. Estimates of the number of rock carvings range from 140,000 to 300,000. The people of the valley are called Camunians or Camuni. The UNESCO website on Valcamonica says pre-Camunian and Camunian artists carved drawings along both sides of the 75km (46 mi) valley. The images depict a chronological sequence of prehistoric subjects, from hunting-gathering to later agricultural scenes, navigation, duels, religion, and geometric-symbolic petroglyphs. Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient WritingsNewsAncient PlacesEuropeRead Later 

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