The teams in charge of the Scan Pyramids mission provided images of their work. Jean-Claude Barré performs infrared measurements in the tomb of Tutankhamun on behalf of the French institute HIP and the Faculty of Engineering in Cairo THERMOGRAPHY. A difference in temperature of a few tenths of a d
The recent identification of cinnabar, a sulphide of mercury, on Inca textiles, has made specialists wonder about the toxicity of this product and the health impact it could have had. Inca mummy and textiles from Cerro Esmeralda, Iquique region, Chile. SACRIFIED . Since the 1970s, the Andes have
Carved from burned bone, this miniature bird statuette is the oldest known Chinese work of art, according to an international team of researchers from the universities of Bordeaux, Shandong, Bergen, the CNRS (Comité National of the Scientific Research ) and the Weizmann Institute of Science. It was
Archaeologists working at the Wadi El-Hudi site in the Egyptian eastern desert, east of Aswan, announced the discovery of 100 new inscriptions, adding to the more than 150 discovered in previous campaigns. The area contains numerous well-preserved fortified settlements, as well as amethyst, gold, c