Palace built in the 16th century in Rome, the Villa Medici has housed the prestigious French Academy in Rome since 1803 . The latter was founded in 1666 at the instigation of Colbert, Le Brun and Le Bernin, in order to train French artists in the study of Antiquity. Being a resident there opens many
This July 27, 2020, Googles Doodle tribute to botanist Jeanne Barret. She is the first woman to have circumnavigated the globe. Jeanne Barret is the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. This July 27, 2020, Google pays tribute to the French botanist Jeanne Barret, born July 27, 1740 and the f
This small piece of carved ocher would have been used as a pencil more than 10,000 years ago. This carved ocher pebble could be one of the very first pencils used by a human. It was near the town of Scarborough, in the north-west of England that archaeologists from the University of York discove
To this day no one can say with absolute certainty whether the Hisarlik site on the north coast of Anatolia is the Homeric Troy or on the contrary it is another city, perhaps the Wilusa Hittite (the only written document found at the site is a cylinder with a Luwian inscription). In any case, when H