The presence in the stomach of the famous iceman of a bacterium responsible for the appearance of gastric ulcers suggests that Ötzi could suffer from this pathology. Samples taken from Ötzis mummy. HELICOBACTER . About Ötzi, we know almost everything:his DNA has been decoded, the contents of his i
A remarkable female statuette carved 23,000 years ago has just been revealed. It was discovered this summer during archaeological digs in Amiens. This Venus with face represented without features, arms just sketched , will join the rare examples of these portable works of art unearthed since the 1
When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Rectina and her husband, who lived in a luxurious seaside villa in Herculaneum, began packing up her large library of papyri for safe keeping. Rectina, who was a personal friend of Pliny the Elder, who at the time was across the bay at Misenum in command of the Roman
Since the 16th century, the phenomenon of Barbary piracy it had become endemic, especially due to the financing and support provided by the Ottoman Empire, multiplying the assaults that were carried out from the coastal places such as Algiers against the populations of the kingdom of Granada. To fig