A sort of secret passages, the word traboule is a typical word from Lyon. Amable Audin, historian and archaeologist breaks it down into “trans-ambulare” which literally means “to pass through”. Old Lyon, well restored, retains a special character with its traboules which form veritable labyrinths. T
Why did the ancient Egyptians always present characters in profile and not from the front in their paintings?, a reader asks us on our Facebook page. This is our question of the week. Relief of the Egyptian pharaoh Seti I (1306-1290 BC). Why did the ancient Egyptians always show figures in profil
It was the year 1911 when a scandal shook Jerusalem and, by extension, the entire Palestinian region, leading the Ottoman Empire to have a friction with the United Kingdom. Members of the Parker Expedition, an archaeological mission excavating in the city, were caught working at night and disguised
The Mayans that inhabited the Mopán Valley in pre-Hispanic times (Guatemala) built urban settlements of remarkable architecture. Among them stand out La Blanca and Chilonché , investigated for more than fourteen years by the La Blanca Project, under the direction of Dr. Cristina Vidal Lorenzo from