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
In this committed essay, archaeologist Jean-Paul Demoule, former president of the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), professor emeritus at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, discusses the nature of archeology . A discipline approached as “a science at the h
We already counted in a previous article as in the year 409 B.C. Carthaginian troops razed the Greek city of Selinunte in Sicily, killing or taking prisoner its more than 20,000 residents. A few thousand remained in the city as tributaries of Carthage. Years later, in 250 BC, the entire population w
Archaeologists found the remains of a tortoise, with its fragile egg encased in its shell, in a shop on Via dellAbbondanza in the Pompeii city site. The finding is proof of the vast ecosystem of Pompeii, made up of natural and not only human traces, and a precious archaeological clue to the last pha