Thanks to advanced technologies, two American researchers have managed to find traces in Alaska of a fort destroyed by Russian settlers in the early 19th century. A map of the fort drawn by the Russians in the 19th century. Two American researchers have found traces of a wooden fort that once sto
In the middle of the 19th century, several thousand children experienced forced labor in the penal colony of Îlet à Guillaume, perched 700 meters above sea level on a plateau on the island of Reunion. Today, archaeological excavations are being carried out on the site in an attempt to uncover their
The discovery of two bodies buried in an abbey in Puglia provides the first DNA evidence that the Black Death also reached southern Italy during the 14th century. Plague epidemic in Marseilles in 1720-1721. Engraving from Lahures Histoire Populaire de la France, mid-19th century. Was southern Ita
Until June 7, 2020, the film The Last Passage, 3D images of the Chauvet cave made in 2015, can be seen free of charge and unlimited on a dedicated platform. In these strange times of pandemic, art and storytelling play a crucial role in our societies insists the prehistorian Jean-Michel Geneste. T