In honor of the sun god, the Aztecs displayed the heads of their decapitated victims. One of these macabre installations was found in the center of the capital of Mexico. The bones were discovered at a depth of 2 m. This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir n°824, dated October 201
According to a study by the University of Oxford, intestinal infections due to Helminths (parasitic worms) were common in medieval Europe. Analyzes of bones across the continent have allowed researchers to determine the frequency of these diseases. Photomicrograph of an egg of the intestinal paras
Every history and archeology buff knows who the Nabataeans were, the builders of the spectacular Petra in present-day Jordan, whose kingdom was conquered by the Romans in 106 AD. A little further south, already in the Arabian Peninsula, there was another powerful and older kingdom that, curiously,
Archaeologists working in ancient Dongola, Sudan, have found the remains of what may be the largest known church from medieval Nubia. It could have been the seat of an archbishop who ruled the ecclesiastical hierarchy in a 1,000 km stretch along the Nile, between the first and fifth cataracts. The