In the summer of 1942, a worker named Jens Christensen extracting peat in Brøns Mose, near the town of Veksø on the island of Zealand, Denmark, found a bronze object decorated with a wooden plate that had a groove and looked like a kind of support, buried about 70 centimeters deep. Immediately subs
A group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute, in Germany, shed light in an educational study on the battery of technologies now available to archaeologists to reconstruct the smells of the past. Science and the Future spoke with Barbara Huber, leading this work. A seated woman pouring perf
Ancient boats, corsair galleons or ships from the 2nd World War:from the depths of the waters where they lie, how to study wrecks? And keep them? Response on Twitch with 1h30 live with marine corrosion expert Jean-Bernard Memet. Watch it in replay on the Sciences et Avenir website. Jean-Bernard M
500 years ago, Hernan Cortés landed in Mexico. An exploration project to find the ships of the Spanish Conquistador expedition is underway in the Gulf of Mexico. Anomalies reported by magnetometers off Playa Villa Rica, Mexico, which may correspond to the scuttling site of Cortès fleet (1519). WR