In his book Le roi Arthur, the medievalist Alban Gautier, professor of medieval history at the University of Caen-Normandy, returns to the mystery of Arthur, an elusive king whose legend and history merge... Alban Gauthier was the guest of our Twitch channel Thursday, May 20, 2021. Portrait of Kin
This aircraft carrier that took part in major battles was sunk in 1942. It was the Microsoft co-founders ship that found its wreckage. Photograph of the USS HOrnet in April 1942, during an air raid against Japan. The USS Hornet (CV-8) aircraft carrier did not cruise the seas for long. Leaving the
500 years ago, Hernan Cortés landed in Mexico. An exploration project to find the ships of the Spanish Conquistador expedition is underway in the Gulf of Mexico. Anomalies reported by magnetometers off Playa Villa Rica, Mexico, which may correspond to the scuttling site of Cortès fleet (1519). WR
What happened in the city of Angkor already abandoned in the 15th century? Thanks to a coring, researchers were able to go back in time and better understand the decline of the ancient Khmer capital. In the 15th century, the royal city of Angkor Thom was already abandoned. When all the writings h
A drainage system inaugurated in Egypt should make it possible to preserve the catacombs of Kom el-Shouqafa previously threatened by rising groundwater like several other ancient sites. Photo of Kom El-Shoqafa catacombs taken on March 3, 2019. A civil engineering program to better preserve the 2,
The discovery of a tattoo needle sets back the knowledge of this practice on the North American continent by 1000 years. Close up of a 2000 year old tattoo tool. Almost a needle in a haystack, so exceptional is the discovery of such an accessory! It was while carrying out an inventory of archaeol
Traces of teeth and scraping, cooking marks...:human bones exhumed in the cave of El Toro, in Spain, prove that cannibalism was practiced by the first European farmers, 5000 years before our era. Human skullcap transformed into a container (cut). Chewed bones, a peeled, polished and boiled skullc
Ethiopia is asking France for help to keep Lalibela, famous for its medieval rock-hewn churches. Its 3D modeling reveals the history of the construction of the site, as explained in this article taken from Sciences et Avenir 845 (July 2017). Bete Giyorgis, one of 11 Orthodox buildings carved into
An extensive genetic study offers new insights into the history of migratory movements in the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years. Nomads from the steppes of Eastern Europe would have replaced a large part of the men. Skeletons from La Brana, found in northwest Spain. These two brothers wer
Tutankhamuns tomb - the only one found almost intact in Egypt - has yielded many refined objects, essential for the journey to the afterlife. And moving testimonies of the kings short earthly life. An excerpt from Sciences et Avenir special edition 197 Like other pieces of his funerary furniture,
Opened only a few days ago, an Etruscan burial chamber located under a necropolis from the Roman era, in the region of Aleria, in Corsica, could teach us more about this little-known civilization. Report. The Etruscan tomb of the archaeological site of Aleria, at a place called Lamajone, in Corsic
The study of a unique sculpture from the Iron Age, found in Brittany, allows us to come back to a little explored area, Gallic musical instruments. 3D scan of the Gallic statue of the bard with the lyre (Brittany). At the mere mention of the word bard, it is Assurancetourix that the unconscious o
Extensive remains unearthed near the ancient Templo Mayor, in Mexicos capital, could point to an Aztec royal tomb. Like this canine, the remains of a jaguar currently being extricated are part of a very valuable Aztec offering found near the Templo Mayor, in Mexico City (Mexico). Are we heading t
The tomb of a senior Egyptian official, more than 2,000 years old, has been discovered in the city of Akhmim. It contained a human mummy and many other animal mummies. A member of the Egyptian security forces at the entrance to a 2,000-year-old tomb unveiled on April 5, 2019 in Akhmim A tomb dati
The supposed protective treatment of the bronze weapons of the terracotta warriors of the mausoleum in Xian, China, considered to be the oldest known anti-rust technology, is not what was thought... Detail of the hilt and blade of one of the terracotta army swords of Xian, China. Sparkling like d
Los Angeles Getty Conservation Institute, which has just completed restoration work at Egypts most famous tomb, reveals the mysterious brown stains riddled with ornate walls are microbiological in origin, but the organisms are dead , and that they are no longer a threat. The wall paintings of Tuta
Recently, archaeologists have been interested in contemporary times and the Allied landings of June 1944. A past whose traces are inexorably fading. Blockhouse of the Atlantic Wall, on the Normandy coast. The excavations of the site of Pegasus Bridge, north of Caen (Calvados) have just been compl
The Doggerland is a vast expanse of submerged land which, before sinking under water shortly after 6,500 BC, occupied almost all of the current North Sea. A scientific expedition sets off in search of the men who inhabited this unknown land. The European research project Lost Frontiers uses the sh
Subject of an exhibition in Clermont-Ferrand, the excavations of the site of Montels III in Cébazat brought to light a vase of wine infused with hemp within a tomb. Decryption of the importance of this discovery and these practices with Matthieu Poux, professor of archeology at the University of Lyo
In Imola, Italy, a team of archaeologists unearthed a rare case of coffin birth. The study of the bones made it possible to trace the causes of the death of the mother and the post-mortem delivery. The discovery and analysis of the bones of a burial showing a case of coffin birth highlights medica
While the reopening of tombs in the High Middle Ages in Europe has long been attributed to an act of looting, European researchers have just rehabilitated this practice. Funerary spaces and practices in Alsace during the Merovingian and Carolingian periods. From the 5th to the 8th century AD. J.-
One of the first British geologists was John Williams, author of Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom. It was he who first described some strange ruins in 1777, of which more than a hundred examples have subsequently been found throughout Europe, mainly in Scotland. He called them vitrified fortr
To the south of Tuscany, around the towns of Sovana, Sorano and Pitigliano, there is a network of roads or paths carved into the living rock, whose authors are known to have been the Etruscans or peoples before them, but it is unknown absolutely its original function. They are called Via Cava or Ca
A new Viking site would have been discovered on the American continent, 500 years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. Engraved with a Viking ship, the stone from Tjängvide, Sweden (1.70m high), has was discovered in Gotland in 1844. NEWFOUNDLAND. By Odin, have archaeologists unearthed a ne