Traces of lapis lazuli embedded in the dental plaque of a woman who lived in medieval times suggest that she may have been the first copyist and painter of illuminated manuscripts ever encountered. A discovery that calls into question the belief that only men fulfilled this role. Lower jaw of a 12
In July 2017, the Dutch justice will decide in the case of the monk in the statue, and will finally decide on its attribution. In July 2017, the Dutch justice will decide in the case of the monk in the statue, and will finally decide on its attribution. His discovery stunned specialists in Septem
Carthage, the city founded in North Africa, in present-day Tunisia, by Phoenician emigrants from Tire at the end of the 9th century BC, was a prosperous state enriched mainly by trade and resources from the western Mediterranean. The rivalry with the polis of Magna Graecia and Sicily soon led to an
Simon Coencas, last survivor of the four teenagers discoverers of the Lascaux cave in 1940, a world-famous masterpiece of parietal art, died at the age of 93. Simon Coencas, one of the four teenagers who discovered the Lascaux cave in 1940, on November 18, 2016 in Paris. As the last discoverer