Aix-en-Provence , it is not only the student city par excellence of the 21st century where life is good. It is also a city with an undeniable historical heritage, a rich and eventful history. The first beginnings of Aquae Sextiae , the Roman town, to the city of Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola , Aix was
Did the queen of Coba, one of the largest cities in the ancient Mayan world, build the longest known Mayan road to invade a smaller, more isolated neighbor and gain a foothold against the emerging empire of Chichen Itza? The question has long intrigued Traci Ardren, an archaeologist and professor o
A monolith It is a large block of stone in one piece. May be of natural origin , as in the cases of the Australian Ayers Rock or the Spanish Peñón de Ifach, or the result of human labor , carved with a specific purpose and of which the classic examples are the prehistoric menhirs. Now, within this s
Most of the huge blocks of sandstone, called sarsens , which make up the famous monument of Stonehenge in the United Kingdom appear to share a common origin 25 kilometers away in West Woods, Wiltshire, according to a recently published analysis of the chemical composition of the stones. The finding