This magnificent building, located in the Marais Parisien, has been in the news for the past few days. First Clisson private mansion , then Hotel de Guise then Soubise , it becomes the headquarters of the National Archives and will soon house the Museum of the History of France . A fair return for a
The Colonia Augusta Rauricorum (Augusta Raurica) was founded by Lucio Munacio Planco, one of the most slippery politicians of the late Republic and early Empire, in the summer of 44 BC. on the south bank of the Rhine, near the modern city of Basel in northern Switzerland. We know the exact year beca
The chemical analysis of a bar of gold metal weighing nearly 2 kg, discovered in 1981 at the bottom of an old canal in Mexico City, made it possible to authenticate this vestige as coming from the treasure looted by Hernan Cortés in 1520 on the Tenochtitlan site. An exceptional discovery. The Noch
The location and orientation of the mysterious Uffington Horse, etched on a chalky hill in southern England, is believed to be linked to the path of the sun. Aerial view of the famous Uffington Giant Horse in southern England. AGE OF THE BRONZE. From the hill of Dragon Hill which faces it, in the