In matters of torture, the man was able to demonstrate a formidable inventiveness. From the wheel to the pal passing through the punches and even the moray eels, everything was good to punish the condemned in the most atrocious sufferings... Water torture in the 15th century This article is from
Surveys carried out at the beginning of April in a lake near Rome seek to discover the possible presence of a third floating palace of the Emperor Caligula. Extraction of one of Caligulas ships, in Lake Nemi in Italy in 1931. The calm waters of Lake Nemi in Italy were suddenly stirred by a team o
Succeeding Alain Prochiantz, Thomas Römer has just taken over as head of the prestigious Collège de France. Thomas Römer, new administrator of the Collège de France. Since September 1, 2019, Professor Thomas Römer has become the new administrator of the Collège de France, in Paris. Holder of the
Traces of teeth and scraping, cooking marks...:human bones exhumed in the cave of El Toro, in Spain, prove that cannibalism was practiced by the first European farmers, 5000 years before our era. Human skullcap transformed into a container (cut). Chewed bones, a peeled, polished and boiled skullc