Teepees were conical tents built by Native American tribes of the Great Plains, Intermountain West, and Subarctic regions of what is now the United States. They were typically made of poles covered with buffalo skin or other animal hides, and were used as temporary dwellings by nomadic peoples.
The first evidence of the use of bows and arrows by prehistoric people outside the African continent has been attested in the tropical forests of Sri Lanka, in South Asia. They date back 48,000 years. Shuttle, monkey tooth punch and arrowhead, from Fa-Hien La cave in Sri Lanka (45-48,000 years old
In the Gebel el-Silsila quarry near Aswan in Egypt, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 3,000-year-old workshop containing several unfinished sculptures, including a ram-headed sphinx chiseled from sandstone. The workshop is believed to date from the 18th dynasty, during the reign of Ame
Historian Daniel Jaquet conducts research on the art of combat in the Middle Ages... and tests armor on him! Historian Daniel Jaquet in the flight taking him from Geneva to New York on September 20, 2017. Neither Godefroy de Montmirail, nor knight of Puy du Fou, Daniel Jaquet exercises a very ser
About sixty graves of newborns, buried 2,000 years ago, have recently been unearthed at the foot of the ancient Roman ramparts of the city of Nîmes. Allegorical relief dating from the 2th century of our era, where the stillbirth rate was very high. Experts estimate that one in three children died