If there is something that characterizes archeology, it is the care, the almost exquisite touch that is given to the sites and that makes a tool as simple and limited as a brush the protagonist of the excavations, making the archaeologist have to spend hours and hours under the sun separating just a
In 1959, numerous medieval sarcophagi were discovered in the Basilica of Saint-Denis in Paris, the burial place for centuries of the kings of France. The person in charge of the Parisian archaeological work was, at that time, Michel Fleury, one of the most outstanding French specialists. Upon openi
Some of the earliest legal codes were formulated in the ancient Middle East. The Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites all had their own laws. Among them, the Code of Hammurabi is perhaps the best known, but there have been many earlier codes of law. The firs
Off the coast of Kasos Island, east of Crete in the Dodecanese, archaeologists found several ancient shipwrecks, including a Roman ship from the 2nd to 3rd centuries AD. whose cargo consisted of oil amphorae from ceramic workshops in the Iberian Peninsula. The amphorae were made in workshops around