The discovery of two bodies buried in an abbey in Puglia provides the first DNA evidence that the Black Death also reached southern Italy during the 14th century. Plague epidemic in Marseilles in 1720-1721. Engraving from Lahures Histoire Populaire de la France, mid-19th century. Was southern Ita
When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Rectina and her husband, who lived in a luxurious seaside villa in Herculaneum, began packing up her large library of papyri for safe keeping. Rectina, who was a personal friend of Pliny the Elder, who at the time was across the bay at Misenum in command of the Roman
For this 2nd episode of the Notebooks of Egypt, focus on the tomb of Nakhtamon, the one who was responsible for the composition of the altars at the Ramesseum and the order of the procession of the offering. The procession of the offering:the head of the butchers of the Ramesseum is in the process
The presence of menhirs is not common in India, although there are some examples in the states of Megalaya, Nagaland and Andhra Pradesh. In 2010, a team of researchers from the countrys Archaeological Survey discovered 171 more in the state of Mizoram, in northeastern India. They are located in a f