Very close to the French town of Montesquieu-Avantés, in the Midi-Pyrénées region, and to the Tuc dAudoubert cave, whose fantastic prehistoric clay bison we have already reviewed in another article, is the Trois Frères cave (Three Brothers). Both are part of an underground system of three caverns f
While the myth of the collapse persists, a team of researchers shows that the population of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) experienced a continuous increase until the arrival of Europeans in 1722. The moai statues are sometimes presented as the symbol of the excessiveness of the Pascuans by the defender
The game exercised a constant fascination between Romans of any social class . It was very popular with the rich, and many of them played at night under the austere gaze of the statues of their ancestors. Immense fortunes were won or lost while the slaves lay frozen and forgotten, or so the satirist
Historical capital of Russia, architectural gem, intellectual and academic center, Saint-Petersburg is the second largest city in the country and one of its main ports and rail hubs. Saint-Petersburg is first and foremost the idea of one man, the Tsar of Russia Peter I the Great. Few observers wou