Discovered in Serbia, two burial mounds dating back 5,000 years house four burial chambers typical of the Yamnaya culture, originating from the Eurasian steppe. These are the most western traces testifying to the expansion of this nomadic population. Reconstruction of the burial of a man belonging
A 12th-century medieval hoard containing (among other things) more than 2,200 silver denarii and 21 gold Muslim dinars was discovered at Cluny Abbey. And it was an archeology student who first saw the treasure during the excavations! The 21 Muslim gold dinars, found among 2,200 silver denarii and
Since the 16th century, the phenomenon of Barbary piracy it had become endemic, especially due to the financing and support provided by the Ottoman Empire, multiplying the assaults that were carried out from the coastal places such as Algiers against the populations of the kingdom of Granada. To fig
The recent discovery, in Sidon, in Lebanon, of mass graves of crusaders dating back to the 13th century - extremely rare vestiges - confirm the reality of the brutality of the period of the crusades. Combat details of the raid of Sidon (Lebanon) dating from the 13th century. These illustrations a