While exploring a lava tube in New Mexico, geoscientists discovered that around 1,500 years ago, the ancestral Pueblos had managed to survive the drought by sinking deep into these tunnels. They harvested ancient ice there and turned it into drinking water. Here, part of the ice exploited by the a
In Novgorod, Russia, in the 13th century, children also liked to express themselves. This was the case with little Onfim who was around 6 or 7 years old when he decided to scribble everywhere using a sharp-tipped object, unintentionally creating a beautiful archaeological record of medieval life in
8 statues representing Sekhmet, the goddess with the body of a woman and the head of a lioness have just been unearthed in the temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III Ancient statue of the goddess Sekhmet discovered in Luxor (Thebes) in the temple of millions of years of Amenhotep III. It is said that fro
On the night of September 2 to 3, 2018, a fire ravaged the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), one of the largest museums on the American continent. A look back at the lost collections… and what would have survived… Aerial view of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the day aft