Researchers have reconstructed in 3D the terrifying weapons of war of the Romans of the 4th century. An excerpt from the article to read in the March 2018 issue of Sciences et Avenir (number 853). The ox liburnum (copy from the 15th century after the antique drawing) is one of the innovative devic
The sibyls, in Greek and Roman mythology, were women capable of predicting the future, named after the first of them all, a young woman (daughter of Dardanus and Neso) who prophesied the Trojan War. She was in Delphi before the existence of the Pythia oracle and the sanctuary of Apollo, and her ori
Tourists who visit Peru are often attracted by the Inca archaeological heritage, whose most famous jewels, Cuzco and Machu Picchu, are located in the southern half of the country. But the Peruvian north is also attractive from that historical-monumental point of view, apart from being more culturall
The discovery of two bodies buried in an abbey in Puglia provides the first DNA evidence that the Black Death also reached southern Italy during the 14th century. Plague epidemic in Marseilles in 1720-1721. Engraving from Lahures Histoire Populaire de la France, mid-19th century. Was southern Ita