In the year 10 B.C. Emperor Augustus commissioned the mathematician and architect Novius Facundus to design and build a sundial in Rome, the Horologium Augusti , as a commemoration of the Roman domination of Egypt and Augustus himself born to bring peace to the world . Thus, its installation was pr
This geoglyph of a pointy-eared cat about 37 meters long was recently brought out of oblivion, its lines having been spotted by a drone flyby. A new geoglyph, more than 2,000 years old and representing a feline, photographed on October 15, 2020 in Nazca A new geoglyph, more than 2,000 years old a
An Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Saqqara region near the pyramid of King Teti, the first ruler of the Sixth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, has announced important discoveries. A recently discovered sarcophagus at the site of Saqqara, Egypt. New archaeological treasures, including a
A large study has shown highly differentiated diets among farming and herding populations in Western Europe 7,500 years ago. The molecular analysis of food residues found in pottery (here, those of Verson, in France) made it possible to determine what type of food was consumed in the north and in