It has long been assumed that proximity to resources determines settlement patterns, and that cities are generally founded near water and fertile farmland. But a new study challenges this idea, using the example of an ancient city in present-day southern Mexico. The researchers maintain that Monte
The payment methods they have existed for centuries and have always played an important role within societies. Their evolution over the years has been considerable:we have gone from simple and physical barter to the difficult and abstract world of technological innovations . The technologi
Used for almost 1000 years, the Aswan necropolis in southern Egypt is a gold mine for archaeologists. Because this cemetery at the gates of Africa was the last resting place of cosmopolitan populations, Egyptians, Nubians, Persians, Greek soldiers and even Judean mercenaries. Report from our special
A controversy has recently erupted between historians and the restriction of access to certain archival documents. Between Kafka and the Office of Captions , trip to the classified Secret or Confidential funds of the National Archives. Interview with Emmanuel Rousseau, its director. Example of a d