In 1706 the French explorer Paul Lucas, on a diplomatic mission in the Ottoman Empire, found the ruins of an ancient city in the southwest of the Anatolian peninsula in the Taurus Mountains. It would take more than a century until 1824 for an English antiquarian named Francis Arundell, then a chapl
DNA analysis of grape seeds from Roman and medieval times reveals that grape varieties have changed very little over the past two millennia. The archaeological site of Tourbes (Hérault), where Ist pips were discovered century close to the current pinot and savagnin grape varieties. DNA. Viticult
Science and the Future was in Cairo to attend the press conference of the Scan Pyramids team, at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza. Report. This infrared thermography image shows a marked temperature difference between the hot top of Dahshurs red pyramid (in red) and the colder bottom (blue and pu
One of the main characteristics of the most important cities of antiquity in the Hellenistic kingdoms, first, and in the Roman territories of the East, later, are the great colonnaded avenues. They also existed in Rome itself and other European cities, but the oriental examples are usually larger an