The city of Paris was founded around 250 BC on the Ile de la Cité by the Gallic tribe of the Parisii. At the time, it was a fortified town called Lutetia (Lutèce). In 52 BC, the city was conquered by the Romans, who gave it the name of Civitas Parisorium (Paris). Paris becomes the capital of the Fra
The analysis of the skeletons of a necropolis of the Qing dynasty (1642-1912), discovered in Shanxi, in China, makes it possible to return to the painful custom of bound feet. A practice of female mutilation that will have lasted 1000 years! Lotus dor shoes for bound feet not to exceed...7.5 cm. A
In a remote rural area of the municipality of Rus (Jaen), nestled in an olive farm that extends over the current Giribaile reservoir, there is an exclusive Visigothic monument called the Cuevas de Valdecanales. His story is as follows: At the beginning of the Middle Ages, the political situation
An interdisciplinary team of Danish researchers has used new astronomical insights to establish an exact time frame for the arrival of trade flows from the Middle East to Viking Age Scandinavia. The results are published in the prestigious international journal Nature . Mobility profoundly shaped t