Aix-en-Provence , it is not only the student city par excellence of the 21st century where life is good. It is also a city with an undeniable historical heritage, a rich and eventful history. The first beginnings of Aquae Sextiae , the Roman town, to the city of Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola , Aix was
An international team of researchers has successfully germinated six date palms from seeds found at ancient sites in southern Israel. 2,000 years old, they could provide valuable information on the longevity of the DNA of these plants. After the first germination of a seed in 2008, six other small
A team of archaeologists has discovered a surprising series of nine objects carved in stone, approximately half a meter high, while carrying out exploratory excavations prior to the installation of an electrical substation in the Orkney Islands, an archipelago located 16 kilometers north of the coas
Discovered in 1927 in Peru, some of these geoglyphs have recently been reanalyzed by a Japanese team, with new results. Formerly described as a hummingbird, this fifty-meter-long geoglyph is actually a kind of sparrow. What species are the birds depicted in the enigmatic lines of the Nasca desert