The oldest literary reference to a working saw comes from the Roman poet Ausonius who, in his poem Mosella (about landscapes traversed by the Moselle River in Germany) composed at the end of the 4th century AD, describes the screeching sound of a water saw cutting marble . However, the oldest repre
What was the daily life of the citizens of ancient Rome like? This week, we suggest you investigate the routine and the daily life of a great civilization thanks to its domestic objects and the use made of its buildings , aspects that you can also learn about in the article “Living in the underwor
2,000 years old, manuscripts of Herculaneum belonging to the Institut de France are currently being studied in England. The application of new non-invasive techniques could accelerate their decryption. Digitization of one of the two rolls of Herculaneum from the Institut de France (Paris), at the
Stonehenge is made up of four concentric circles of stone blocks. The largest are those on the outside, large sandstone stones originally crowned by lintels, of which only seven remain in place today. The inner circumferences are composed of smaller and other stones, the 42 called bluestones or blui