In the year 103 AD Emperor Trajan ordered the construction of a bridge over the Danube River that would serve to cross and supply the troops in the imminent Second Dacian War against Decebalus, for which he was preparing the largest army since the time of Augustus, some 150,000 men. The person in c
Seventeen mummies have just been unearthed in catacombs in central Egypt. Recent discoveries of mummies in the catacombs of Tounah el-Gebel, in Middle Egypt. Superstar Mummies! After the 8 Pharaonic period mummies discovered in April 2017 in the Valley of the Kings, the flashes crackled again, th
In honor of the sun god, the Aztecs displayed the heads of their decapitated victims. One of these macabre installations was found in the center of the capital of Mexico. The bones were discovered at a depth of 2 m. This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir n°824, dated October 201
Interview with Éric Crubézy, professor of biological anthropology at the University of Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier and specialist in funerary rites, for whom the appearance of the first burials marks the beginning of history. Doctor and anthropologist, Éric Crubézy speaks during the Research and