A 16th century wreck, found in 2016 not far from Orlando, has been recognized as property of France by the American justice system. She would belong to the fleet of the explorer Jean Ribault, who left to establish a colony in Florida between 1562 and 1565. 15th-16th century fleur-de-lis cannon fou
One would think that after more than three centuries marked by waves of plague, between the start of the Black Death in 1348 and the Great Plague of 1665, Europeans would have learned to slow down the transmission of the disease. But a study proves the opposite extreme:in the 17th century, the plagu
A 2,800-year-old goldsmith treasure belonging to the Eastern Scythians or Sakas has been unearthed in a burial mound, east of Kazakhstan, in Central Asia. Animals from the steppes, gold ornaments, arrowheads, more than 3000 precious objects were extracted from a kurgan belonging to the Eastern Scy
The first evidence of the use of bows and arrows by prehistoric people outside the African continent has been attested in the tropical forests of Sri Lanka, in South Asia. They date back 48,000 years. Shuttle, monkey tooth punch and arrowhead, from Fa-Hien La cave in Sri Lanka (45-48,000 years old