The International Center for Parietal Art - Lascaux 4 - offers a superb facsimile of the famous decorated cave of Dordogne. The site which opens to the public on December 15, 2016 is inaugurated this Saturday by François Hollande; Science and the Future went there at the end of October. One of the
Tutankhamuns tomb - the only one found almost intact in Egypt - has yielded many refined objects, essential for the journey to the afterlife. And moving testimonies of the kings short earthly life. An excerpt from Sciences et Avenir special edition 197 Like other pieces of his funerary furniture,
Polish archaeologist Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider has unveiled a centuries-old mystery after identifying more than 200 inscriptions addressed to an anonymous god in the ancient city of Palmyra, in present-day Syria, which was the capital of the empire of the same name under the famous queen Zenobia,
In addition to documentary records, researchers have found traces of Viking nutrition in bones, ancient sewer systems and rubbish waste. They found that they were also afflicted with worms and food poisoning from consuming inappropriate or contaminated items. As meat was very present in Viking meals