Interview with professor at the faculty of engineers in Cairo Hany Helal. Hany Helal. Sciences et Avenir:Why did you, an engineer by training, get involved in this archaeological mission? Hany Helal: It is in line with what I have been doing for years. I finished my thesis at the Ecole des mines
The Egyptian Minister of Antiquities has given the green light to the exceptional scientific mission Scan Pyramids, which will focus on 4 pyramids. Story from Giza by our special correspondent Aline Kiner. The Scan Pyramids team, on October 25, 2015 in Cairo. This exceptional scientific mission fo
The Louvre Museums exceptional collection of models of sheeps livers is currently being digitized. This 3D modeling will allow you to learn more about the art of divination in Mesopotamia. Discovered at the Mesopotamian site of Mari (now Syria), these liver models are among 16 digitized in 3D and b
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
New release, new shop, and above all, walls of consolidated bones:from April 1, 2017, visitors to the catacombs will benefit from the first phase of renovation of this mysterious Parisian museum. Restoration of bone walls in the Catacombs of Paris. Saturday April 1, visitors to the catacombs will
Who made the tools unearthed on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi? Their discovery revives the debate on the origins of the hobbit discovered a few hundred kilometers away on the island of Florès. Tools from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, dating back 118,000 years, may have been used to hunt el
The Scan Pyramids campaign reveals a clear temperature separation on the west face of the red pyramid of Dahshur. Could the Sun be the cause? 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
The phylogenetic study of several popular tales suggests that their origin would be much older than we imagined. Illustration from the tale of Beauty and the Beast, by Walter Crane, in 1874. STUDY. Bluebeard, Donkey Skin… Fairy tales are not just for children. They are also of interest to scientis
New analyzes reveal that the plague epidemic which ravaged Marseilles in the 18th century did not come from Asia, as previously thought, but was a resurgence of the great Black Death which devastated Europe… four centuries more early The Great Plague of 1720 at La Tourette, in Marseille, work of th
Sunken ships would generate airborne particles that could be detected by satellites. A valuable aid in locating dangerous wrecks dating from the two world wars. The wrecks would generate suspended particles that could be detected by Landsat-8 type satellites. WRECKS. Hundreds of thousands of shipw
A funerary boat was unearthed in the enclosure of the necropolis of Abusir, a funerary complex near Cairo in Egypt. Explanations from naval archaeologist Patrice Pomey. Remains of a III-IV Dynasty funerary bark found at the site of Abusir in Egypt. NECROPOLIS. Stranded on a bed of stones, this fu
A badger plays archaeologist and discovers a 4,000-year-old burial site in southern England. Ornate-handled copper chisel discovered among numerous objects near the cremated remains of an archer from the Bronze Age. TRACK. English archaeologists still cant believe it! A badger has unearthed a Bron
In 2016, the company Visual Forensic produced this astonishing digital facial reconstruction of a young English Protestant who died in Paris of the plague in 1636. The monograph dedicated to him Thomas Craven. Chronicle of a ghost is now available in bookstores . 3D facial reconstruction of Thomas
Pepin the Short, Charlemagne... Researchers have recently discovered human hair embedded in royal seals. Revealing a medieval belief about the power of body hair. Charlemagne (742-814), King of the Franks, grandson of Charles Martel, Carolingian dynasty. Engraving from the end of the 19th, beginnin
Tomb of Tutankhamun:a Big Bang announced in April by the Egyptian Minister of Tourism. Burial chamber in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. We dont know if this is Nefertitis burial chamber, but its full of treasures … These words - to say the lea
3 skeletons placed on the side, the head looking in the direction of Mecca:these burials constitute the first indications of the presence of Muslim communities in the south of the country at the beginning of the Middle Ages. One of the 3 Muslim tombs discovered in Nîmes. EVIDENCE. These are excava
To the south of Montpellier, the remains of a tavern dating from the 2nd century BC have been unearthed. An innovation imported from Rome in a rapidly changing Gallic world. Remains of an ancient tavern discovered at the ancient site of Lattara, dated to the 2nd century BC. The three red circles ar
A ring believed to have belonged to the Maid of Orléans was recently acquired by the Puy-du-Fou theme park in Vendée. London would claim the return of the ring, with suspicious authenticity, across the Channel. The supposed ring of Joan of Arc sold in February in London by Timeline Auctions. RING.
Bronze ceremonial weapons over 2,500 years old have been unearthed for the first time in the Arabian Peninsula. Two copper and bronze quivers dated to the Iron Age (900-600 BC) discovered on the Mudhmar site in the Sultanate of Oman. ARABIA. Quivers, arrows, daggers, axes… An exceptional set of br
The young French company Iconem is launching Syrian Heritage, the largest 3D database for the safeguarding of endangered Syrian heritage archaeological sites. Three-dimensional survey of the ancient theater of Jableh (3rd century AD) in Syria. ARCHAEOLOGY. There are those who speak… and those who
The Syrian city of Palmyra, and its 2,000-year-old ancient city, was taken over this weekend by Daesh jihadists. The ruins of the city of Palmyra in Syria, March 27, 2016. This weekend, after a succession of contradictory information, the governor of the province of Homs (Syria), ended up conf
Not only does it contain the longest known text in the Etruscan language, it is also considered the only existing ancient book written on linen. It is known as Liber Linteus Zagrabiensis (the linen book of Zagreb) and also as Liber Agramensis . It contains the only extant non-epigraphic Etruscan te
Creators of surprisingly realistic death masks, the Tashtyk are one of the most mysterious ancient cultures of the steppe. A look back at little-known funeral customs. Tashtyk funerary mask (4th century) from the necropolis of Oglakhti, in Siberia. A recent analysis of the coating of a tashtyk sk
Most of the huge blocks of sandstone, called sarsens , which make up the famous monument of Stonehenge in the United Kingdom appear to share a common origin 25 kilometers away in West Woods, Wiltshire, according to a recently published analysis of the chemical composition of the stones. The finding