When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Rectina and her husband, who lived in a luxurious seaside villa in Herculaneum, began packing up her large library of papyri for safe keeping. Rectina, who was a personal friend of Pliny the Elder, who at the time was across the bay at Misenum in command of the Roman
They are more than 2000 years old, but are in good condition:more than 40 mummies dating from the Ptolemaic period, dynasties of Greek origin (323 to 30 BC), have been unveiled with great fanfare in catacombs in Egypt by the Ministry of Antiquities. Mummified bodies of men, women, children and a f
The City of Vienna conceals a rich historical heritage, its location, at the confluence of the Rhône and the Gère, at the convergence of the axes of circulation between the Alps and the central massif, and its hilly topography offering promontories, have made it a place of human settlement. from pro
Like ducal Burgundy, a true land of Western medieval monasticism, Transjuran Burgundy also presents itself as a land of predilection where many monastic foundations developed from the time of the Burgundian kingdom. It is also in these lands that we must look for the historical sources of Cluny beac