Prince Henry the Navigator was a Portuguese prince who sponsored many expeditions during the Age of Exploration. His expeditions are credited with discovering many new lands, including Madeira, the Azores, and the coast of Africa. However, they did not discover America. America was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
In the Puy-de-Dôme, a Roman road was damaged by work to install an optical fiber. Roman road in the UNESCO heritage site of Lepcis Magnia in Libya. According to information relayed by France 3 Rhône-Alpes, a paved road linking Orcines to Chamalières in the department of Puy-de-Dôme, would have b
The Egyptian archaeological mission working at Tell el-Farama (ancient Pelusium) in North Sinai has uncovered part of a huge building dating from the Greco-Roman period, used as the seat of the ancient Senate. Pelusium or Pelusio is the name given to the city by classical authors, its original name
Earlier we talked about the oldest preserved intact book in Europe. That punctuation, intact , is important because without it the oldest book in Europe turns out to be the Derveni Papyrus . The Derveni Papyrus was found in 1962 in the town of the same name, about 10 kilometers from Thessaloniki in
In 1996 a Belgian tourist enjoying his vacation on the coast of Croatia made a surprising discovery. His name was René Wouters (he passed away in 2012) and he was scuba diving near the islet of Vele Orjule, southeast of the island of Lussino (Lošinj) and north of the Adriatic coast. At a depth of a