In the year 1812, a spectacular discovery was made in an orchard in the village of Zenjak in Slovenia, near Negau (Negova) and the Austrian border. 26 bronze helmets, of which 23 are preserved today, of Etruscan origin and of the vetulonic type (today also called Negau type). That is, bronze and wit
An exhibition has just opened at the Quai Branly museum in Paris, where a selection of pieces of jade, the sacred green stone of the Maoris, are presented. Jade Hei Tiki (anthropomorphic pendant) from Te Papa Tangarewa Museum, New Zealand. New Zealand Maori gold is a green stone:the Pounamu . Sym
Cretaceous sediments in an unexplored area of Tunisia have provided researchers with the fossilized remains of a 10-meter-long ancient saltwater crocodile. The new species has been named Machimosaurus Rex and is described in an article recently published in Cretaceous Research. It is a specimen v
It is not the plague that would have struck down Saint-Louis in front of Tunis during the VIIIth crusade in 1270. New analyzes carried out by a team of scientists point to other pathologies. The death of Saint-Louis in Tunis, on August 25, 1270, during the VIIIth crusade. Miniature taken from the