The oldest literary reference to a working saw comes from the Roman poet Ausonius who, in his poem Mosella (about landscapes traversed by the Moselle River in Germany) composed at the end of the 4th century AD, describes the screeching sound of a water saw cutting marble . However, the oldest repre
SERIES. For many heritage researchers, the gigantic Notre-Dame de Paris construction site must be an opportunity to carry out excavations that are difficult, or even impossible in normal times, on a site whose history is ultimately very incomplete. The interior of Notre-Dame Cathedral, where the c
New 2,000-year-old documents have been unearthed at the Roman fortress of Vindolanda in northern England. One of the most exceptional archaeological sites in Europe. Cleaning of a fragment of a wooden tablet revealing 2000 year old Roman writings. The Roman fortress of Vindolanda (1st -5e century
The sibyls, in Greek and Roman mythology, were women capable of predicting the future, named after the first of them all, a young woman (daughter of Dardanus and Neso) who prophesied the Trojan War. She was in Delphi before the existence of the Pythia oracle and the sanctuary of Apollo, and her ori