Pen and inkwell The need to communicate and to fix ones thoughts has belonged to mankind since the dawn of civilization, an inalienable desire which, in the absence of adequate means and comfort, has been satisfied from the beginning with the help of the tools made available by nature. Thanks
2,000 years old, manuscripts of Herculaneum belonging to the Institut de France are currently being studied in England. The application of new non-invasive techniques could accelerate their decryption. Digitization of one of the two rolls of Herculaneum from the Institut de France (Paris), at the
New evidence from a lake bottom in the remote Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic indicates that an unknown group of humans settled there around AD 500, some 350 years before the Vikings, who until recently were considered the first human inhabitants. The settlers may have been Celts who crossed rou
An American company specializing in DNA technology has presented a reconstruction of the faces of three Egyptian mummies, all men, aged around 25. An Egyptian mummy at the Georges Labit Museum in Toulouse, March 3, 2009. Are we now able to bring the faces of Egyptian mummies and other deceased p