Historic graves containing hundreds of bodies have been discovered in Amiens, in the Somme, during a preventive archeology operation. Graves of plague victims discovered on the former site of the Hôtel-Dieu in Amiens, during preventive archaeological excavations. “We did not expect to encounter
On the occasion of the publication of the event book on Ancient Africa , the historian François-Xavier Fauvelle, who directed this collective work, explains the originality of his approach. Saharan cave paintings and Ifé heads, from Nigeria (14th century). The History of Africa is several contine
The Swedish island of Gotland is home to the largest concentration of fluted stones in all of Europe, artifacts that are more interesting than they seem. Gotland is the largest island in the Baltic Sea, located off the eastern coast of Sweden and the northern coast of Poland. It is a limestone plat
For this 6th episode of the Notebooks of Egypt, the research mission which studies the paintings of the Theban tombs details the scientific imaging techniques that make possible the rigorous study of the paintings of the Egyptian tombs. They make it possible to reveal a multitude of details on the p