A sort of secret passages, the word traboule is a typical word from Lyon. Amable Audin, historian and archaeologist breaks it down into “trans-ambulare” which literally means “to pass through”. Old Lyon, well restored, retains a special character with its traboules which form veritable labyrinths. T
The oldest strain of plague found among Neolithic agricultural populations, 4900 years ago, in southern Sweden. The grave where the remains of a 20-year-old woman whose genetic material contained the plague bacteria were found, in Sweden, 4900 years ago. The plague has a long history...longer eve
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known simply as Claudius, was the fourth Roman emperor (after Caligula). He was born in Lugdunum, present-day Lyon in France, in 10 BC, where his father was stationed as a military legate, thus becoming the first Roman emperor born outside the Italian pe
LIVE VIDEO. This Saturday, April 3, 2021, during an imposing procession, 22 royal mummies leave the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, Cairo, to join the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC). Portrait of Seti 1st, pharaoh of Egypt of the XIXᵉ dynasty, whose mummy will be transferred