The British site of Vindolanda continues to provide archaeologists with pleasant surprises. In February 2018 it was announced that last summer, to the fantastic finds of writing tablets, swords, shoes, combs and dice, we must add the only preserved Roman boxing gloves. Initially, the researchers wh
Analysis of a skull found in Latvia has revealed the oldest trace of the plague. European scientists have discovered a genome of Yersinia pestis there over 5000 years old. Mandible of a 5000 year old man on which the oldest strain of plague was found. The oldest strain of plague discovered to dat
The remains of 140 children sacrificed in the 15thth century during a mass ritual were exhumed in America, in a region where the pre-Columbian civilization of the Chimu was present. The largest child sacrifice site in pre-Hispanic America has been discovered on the northern coast of Peru, in Huanc
Dolmen is a word, supposedly of Breton origin although its etymology is not very clear, which means large stone table . They are called antas in Galicia, cromlechs in Cornwall, and in very different ways elsewhere. They are megalithic tombs or chambers made up of two or more megaliths, generally two