An interdisciplinary team of Danish researchers has used new astronomical insights to establish an exact time frame for the arrival of trade flows from the Middle East to Viking Age Scandinavia. The results are published in the prestigious international journal Nature . Mobility profoundly shaped t
Mary Anning was born in the south of Victorian England, in Lyme Regis, in 1799. It was a time when evolution was unheard of, when species were still thought of as immutable and perfect creations, and when, at the same time, fossils and dinosaurs were beginning to be known and famous, remains of a pr
Long before envelopes, letters were secured by clever folds that are today undone by technology. One of the letters in Briennes collection dating from 1697. Securing communications is a very current problem, but not only. Ensuring the confidentiality of messages has always been an important issue
Former Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass attacks Nicholas Reeves, the English Egyptologist who believes that an unknown cavity may be in the tomb of Tutankhamun. Zahi Hawass, Egypts former Minister of Antiquities, in front of the Sphynx on the Giza Plateau. CONTROLLING. Full attack in t