The Thessaloniki metro project, due to be completed by 2020, has brought to light outstanding remains that allow archaeologists to fill gaps in their knowledge of the city’s long history. Armed with shovels and brooms, twenty or so workers evolve Read More …
The University of Cambridge, where Newton studied, digitized and put online a handwritten and annotated draft of Principia, the main work of this British physicist. The British physicist Isaac Newton published a major work entitled Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. He Read More …
Toxic carbon dioxide emissions were measured in the Roman temple of Plutonium, god of the underworld, in Hierapolis (Turkey). In ancient times, they had been used to sacrifice animals during mysterious rites. Hell and radiation! At Hierapolis, near Pamukkale in Read More …
Scientists from around the world will be able to dive virtually into the underwater cave of Hoyo Negro, Mexico, where was discovered Naia, the oldest skeleton of the American continent, that of a girl who lived 13,000 years ago. The Read More …
Camelids are definitely in the spotlight! After the discovery of the oldest representation of Bactrian camel painted 8000 years ago on the walls of a cave in Central Asia, it is the figure of the largest camel – sometimes called Read More …
Thousands of Mayan ruins have been detected in the Guatemalan jungle thanks to Lidar technology, revealing the unsuspected magnitude of interconnections between cities. The discovery is exceptional. Thousands of unknown Mayan structures and buildings, hidden under the canopy for centuries, Read More …
This unpublished work, written in an unknown language and adorned with strange illustrations, has been challenging cryptanalysts for a century. For the first time, it is published for the general public. The news will delight lovers of mysteries. The Spanish Read More …
Statues depicting Sekhmet, the Lioness deity, were unearthed near the Colossi of Memnon, Luxor, Egypt. A collection of 27 fragmented statues of Egyptian goddess with a female body and lioness head Sekhmet was found near the Colossi of Memnon in Read More …
The Australopithecus Mrs. Little Foot is 3.67 million years old. It took 20 years to extract it from its gangue of stone and restore it. Discovered in South Africa, it was presented on December 6, 2017, to the whole world. Read More …
Daniel Jaquet exercises a very serious profession. For several years, this medievalist is interested in the art of fighting in the Middle Ages to which he has just devoted a book (Combat in the Middle Ages, a history of martial Read More …
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