Alain Corbin is a historian, specialist in the history of the senses, honorary professor at the University of Paris I Sorbonne. He answered questions from Sciences et Avenir. Alain Corbin This article is from the magazine Sciences et Avenir - Les Indispensables n°206, dated July/September 2021.
The recent drama, luckily with a happy ending, of the Thai children trapped in a cave has reminded me of a curious corner located in the south of France, a cave with cave paintings whose main singularity is the fact that it is underwater, with the entrance 36 meters deep, being necessary to dive alo
The Addaura complex, located on the northeast slope of the Monte Pellegrino massif in northern Sicily, is made up of several caves that were used by the allies after the invasion of Sicily in 1943 as an ammunition store. Towards the end of the Second World War there was an accidental explosion in th
The island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is famous for its elaborate ritual architecture, especially the many moais and the monumental platforms that support them, called ahu. Precisely one of the main unknowns that remain unsolved is why they chose those places around the island to build them, some c