In the Middle Ages, being afflicted with an incurable infectious disease meant solitary confinement forever. Leprosy, syphilis or tuberculosis thus automatically condemned to oblivion. The discovery of 400 skeletons on the site of the former cemetery of a medieval leprosarium in Freiburg im Breisgau
The absence of monsoon rains at the source of the Nile was the cause of migrations and the disappearance of entire settlements in the late Roman province of Egypt. Professor of ancient history Sabine Huebner, from the University of Basel, has for the first time compared this demographic evolution wi
Polish divers believe they have discovered the wreck of a German ship from the Second World War, which could contain legendary relics... A diver above the wreck of the Karlsruhe, a steamship, sunk in the Baltic Sea in April 1945. One of the great unsolved enigmas of this 20th century conflict is
For a long time, archaeologists have wondered how the Mycenaean civilization could have produced the countless pottery found throughout the Mediterranean world. According to a recent study, this would be thanks to the systematic use of lignite as fuel. A surprising explanation, which indicates that