- Trade routes: Navigators sought new trade routes with Asia particularly for silk, spices and gold.
- Knowledge: Explorers were eager to learn more about the world and its many different peoples and environments.
- Wealth: Many European explorers were motivated by a desire for wealth and the opportunities that exploration could bring.
On the site of Tell Banat, in northern Syria, the mound called the White Monument housed a vertical cemetery dating from the third millennium BC. Bringing together fallen soldiers, it could have played a highly symbolic role:asserting the dominance of a powerful state. The White Monument, on the s
A German-Tunisian team co-led by LMU (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) archaeologist Stefan Ritter has inspected the ancient city of Meninx southeast of the island of Jerba, near the modern city of Henchir El Kantara in Tunisia, and has rebuilt its trade links in ancient times. The port of
After nearly five years of closure, the Idleb museum reopened its doors on Monday August 13, 2018 in Syria with the exhibition of a small part of its collection, the institution not having escaped the war which is ravaging the country. A visitor looks at antique oil lamps in the Idlib Museum after
Assyrians, Persians then Greeks… The invaders swept over a weakened Egypt whose culture remained vibrant. The successors of Alexander the Great would adopt some local traditions, forging a Hellenistic culture around Alexandria, the new capital. Cat mummy, Egyptian antiquity, Late period. Preserved