About a month ago, in mid-April, we reviewed here the discovery of a station for the sacred boat of Khnum; I was in the so-called Nectanebo Pavilion , on the island of Elephantine. Well, that name continues to be associated with new surprises because the discovery in 2015 of a two thousand-year-old
In the middle of the 19th century, several thousand children experienced forced labor in the penal colony of Îlet à Guillaume, perched 700 meters above sea level on a plateau on the island of Reunion. Today, archaeological excavations are being carried out on the site in an attempt to uncover their
A collection of formulas found in one of the 59 sarcophagi exhumed on October 4, 2020 on the Saqqara plateau, in the heart of the ancient necropolis of Memphis, in Egypt, turned out to be one of the oldest versions of Book of the Dead . Deceased worshiping a crocodile symbol of fertility, detail
On November 29, 1483, a priest and lawyer born in Strasbourg acceded to the position of Master of Ceremonies of the papacy in Rome, after having purchased the post for about 450 ducats. His name was Johann Burchard and until his death in 1506 he would serve five pontiffs in that capacity. A few yea