In the United States, researchers are going to try a new experiment:train dogs to sniff out looted antiquities. Training of a German shepherd in the identification of odors, at the Central Service for Forensic Identification in Ecully (France). After the search for narcotics, explosives or burie
Discovered in the reserves of the Musée dAquitaine in Bordeaux, the supposed coffin of the philosopher Michel de Montaigne has begun to reveal its first secrets. Michel de Montaigne, 19th century engraving. The supposed coffin of the philosopher Michel de Montaigne has begun to reveal its first s
Traces of teeth and scraping, cooking marks...:human bones exhumed in the cave of El Toro, in Spain, prove that cannibalism was practiced by the first European farmers, 5000 years before our era. Human skullcap transformed into a container (cut). Chewed bones, a peeled, polished and boiled skullc
Archaeological investigations carried out in Mozia (on the current island of Saint Pantaleon), the Phoenician city that flourished in the extreme west of Sicily between the 8th and 4th centuries BC, have revealed a large sanctuary delimited by a circular temenos in the center of which is a sacred po