Near the Czech town of Dolní Věstonice in Moravia is the archaeological site of the same name. A place that, since before systematic excavations began in 1924, had already provided researchers with abundant prehistoric materials from the Gravettian period (which took place between 27,000 and 20,000
More than 2000 years old, an ancient cemetery in Upper Egypt has yielded a number of mummies and around forty imposing sarcophagi carved in limestone. Anthropomorphic limestone sarcophagus engraved with the name of its owner. Its occupants will have known only two thousand years of eternity! A va
Inaugurated a few days ago, the VÉgA online platform offers a unique lexical resource for archaeologists and lovers of ancient Egypt. The Véga dictionary, translator of hieroglyphs. DICOS . The study of hieroglyphs, this figurative writing used by the ancient Egyptians, requires patience... and s
In our article When the emperor Hadrian destroyed the longest bridge in the world, we tell how this bridge was ordered to be built by Trajan in the year 103 AD. over the Danube River, to serve as a crossing and supply for the troops in the imminent Second Dacian War against Decebalus. The bridge wa