Serapis was a Greek-Egyptian syncretic god, made up of the Egyptian divinities Osiris and Apis (identified with Zeus and Hades) who emerged in Memphis among the descendants of the Greek mercenaries of Psammetichus and Amasis in the 7th-6th centuries BC. C., and whom Ptolemy I appointed as the main g
In the Middle Ages, being afflicted with an incurable infectious disease meant solitary confinement forever. Leprosy, syphilis or tuberculosis thus automatically condemned to oblivion. The discovery of 400 skeletons on the site of the former cemetery of a medieval leprosarium in Freiburg im Breisgau
A handful of Allied warships sunk off the Indonesian coast in 1942 during the Battle of the Java Sea and other operations have all but disappeared. The Battle of the Java Sea was one of the largest fought on the Asian stage of World War II, between Allied and Japanese forces. It took place on Febru
A slab covered with a long Etruscan text has been unearthed in the foundations of a 2,500-year-old temple in Tuscany. A godsend for archaeologists, who struggle to have a comprehensive knowledge of this ancient language. Etruscan Necropolis of Banditaccia (9th-3rd century BC), Cerveteri, Lazio, Ita