At the heart of the Semois valley stands most certainly the largest and most impressive fortress in Belgium, dominating its wide ramparts the small town of Bouillon . The latter owes its fame to its former duke, Godefroy de Bouillon, who distinguished himself during the first crusade both by playing
45,000 years ago Europe was inhabited solely by hunter-gatherer peoples. But about 8,500 years ago, a new way of life began to spread across the continent from the Aegean shores of present-day Turkey, reaching central Europe 7,500 years ago and Britain 6,100 years ago. The diffusion of agriculture a
Archaeologists from the University of Western Australia (UWA) have determined that peoples living in ancient north-western Arabia built burial avenues long-distance paths -large roads flanked by thousands of funerary monuments linking oases and pastures-, suggesting a high degree of social and econo
This vase carved from a single block of glass, dating from the very end of Antiquity, had been found crushed but complete in a tomb in Autun, in Saône-et-Loire. Exceptional in its rarity, it has just been restored to its former glory after a delicate restoration. But today its content, just as extra