An international team with the participation of the University of Bern provides new data on how the inhabitants of the oldest settlement in the world buried their dead in Çatalhöyük (modern Turkey). The bones were partially painted, unearthed and reburied several times. The findings provide insight
Discovered in a South African cave, this litter alternates plant layers with ash, used as an insect repellent and thermal insulator. Fossilized litter unearthed by excavations mixed sheaves of plants from the panicoideae subfamily and camphor leaves. This article is taken from the monthly n°884
Conservators at the Vindolanda Museum, UK, found a toy from the 2nd century AD, a piece of leather cut out in the shape of a small mouse. It is a flat piece that was found in a bag full of other scraps and scraps of leather. The piece has angular, geometric contours, making it appear more like a li
Behind the canvases of the Renaissance masters, a rigorous geometric construction. By inventing perspective, Italian artists create the illusion of depth... and revolutionize the representation of the world. The Ideal City, preserved in the city of Urbino, Italy, and made between 1480 and 1490 by