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
The prehistorian Eric Boeda, a specialist recognized for his work on lithic industries, comes back with reservations on the recent announcements concerning Brazilian capuchin monkeys who cut tools... A capuchin monkey using rocks, photographed in Serra da Capivara (Piaui) National Park, northeast
A deadly virus has been detected in Germany, on shards of pottery dating from the Iron Age unearthed at the archaeological site of Heuneburg. Proof that hemorrhagic fever raged in Europe from -2500 years ago. Reconstruction of the Iron Age fortified site of Heuneburg, Germany. The famous French N
The international mission, which in October 2016 discovered two little-known cavities in the pyramid of Cheops, is invited to exhibit at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille. Child mummy, dating from Roman times. A moving mummy of a child sleeping in its sarcophagus, statuettes of mourners with the
The archaeologist Guillemette Andreu-Lanoé, former director of the Egyptian Antiquities department of the Louvre, took part, in an exceptional way, in the conception of the ScanPyramids exhibition. She explains why. The Egyptologist-archaeologist Guillemette Andreu-Lanoé in Soleb (in Sudanese Nubi
The use of a forensic technique would make it possible to determine the sex of the authors of the negative hands preserved on the walls of prehistoric caves, with a success rate of more than 90%. Rock art:35,000 year old negative hands reproduced on the walls of a rock shelter (Indonesia). Who ow
A Chilean clinic has analyzed 15 mummies from the Chinchorro people, one of the precursors of mummification. Chilean researchers have performed a scan on 15 mummies from the Chinchorro people. SCANNING. Fifteen of the worlds oldest mummies were scanned in mid-December 2016 to reveal some or all
Archaeological excavations shed new light on the fate of the Vikings who, around the year 1000, settled in Greenland before disappearing five centuries later. Landscape of southern Greenland, where Viking colonies were established around the year 1000. A scientific article published on August 8,
Bone remains unearthed at Blue Fish Cave, caves located in Canada, prove that humans had reached North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. Horse mandible from the site of Blue Fish Cave, Yukon (Canada). It contains many traces of straight and parallel cuts, which indicate a remov
Daesh, the Islamic State terrorist group, has destroyed new archaeological treasures in Palmyra, Syria. The Tetrapylon monument, as it could be seen in the archaeological site of Palmyra (Syria), is now partially destroyed. Palmyra. Further destruction is to be deplored in Palmyra, Syria. Accordi
An exhibition at the National Museum of Phnom-Penh in Cambodia is the setting for an exciting discovery:a stele bearing the oldest 0 that has come down to us. A point engraved in the rock. This inscription in ancient Khmer, the point on the right, would be the oldest known version of our zero. It
Study of a model racing chariot on display at the British Museum provides little-known insight into how they might have been built in ancient Rome. 1st miniature Roman racing chariot century of our era, discovered in the Tiber (Rome), in 1894, and today exhibited in the British Museum (London). Th
A new excavation site discovered in Canada is full of particularly well-preserved Jura fossils. Fossilized mantle of a cephalopod close to the modern abyssal vampire. MOUS . It was around Banff National Park, in southwestern Alberta in Canada, that this land was discovered in 2013, housing hundre
In northern Peru, archaeologists unearth hundreds of sarcophagi clinging to the side of the cliff, the only traces of a mysterious people who have now disappeared:the Chachapoyas. Our reporter followed them to the heart of the Andes. The discovery of the Lagoon of the Condors and its Chachapoyas m
Considered one of the first sites in the Atlantic Ocean to have, at 15e century, imported slaves from the African continent, the Canary Islands could have concealed one of the oldest cemeteries of the slave trade. An article to (re)discover on the occasion of the National Day of Memories of the Slav
The American archaeologist Sarah Parcak offers GlobalXplorer, an online platform allowing Internet users, from satellite images, to participate in the detection of ancient sites. The Peruvian site of Chan Chan, seen from the sky. HERITAGE. Playing Indiana Jones from space from your couch? Sarah
ASIA PRESS REVIEW. A very contrasting selection of scientific news in Asia collected in the press and on our site. Bamiyan soon to have a cultural center; a purported cellular treatment for trisomy 21; the care of the mentally ill in China; too polluting banana plantations in Laos and more... The
An unknown tomb located in the area of El Khokha, on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor (Egypt) has just been unearthed by archaeologists. On one of the walls of the entrance to the 3200-year-old tomb, the representation of a solar boat and four baboons praising the god Ra. NECROPOLIS. It has
Huge geometric figures have been found in the Amazon rainforest, but it is not known what these constructions were really intended for, used between 2000 and 650 BC. Hundreds of enigmatic formations have been revealed during aerial overflights in the state of Acre, in the Amazon. Circular, quadr
Hebrew University archaeologists have found a new cave that once contained Dead Sea Scrolls. Fragment of a blank scroll, found in cave Q12, recently discovered at the site of Qumran, in the Judean desert. Its stunning! Ive been waiting for this news for 20 years! Admits, still in shock, Mireille
The Ilave district is one of the five that make up the Peruvian province of El Collao, located in the south of the country in the department of Puno. There, halfway between the cities of Ilave and Juli and near Lake Titicaca and the border with Bolivia, is a rocky structure that for a few decades ha
LIVE VIDEO. This Saturday, April 3, 2021, during an imposing procession, 22 royal mummies leave the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, Cairo, to join the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC). Portrait of Seti 1st, pharaoh of Egypt of the XIXᵉ dynasty, whose mummy will be transferred
The footprints of Homo erectus recently discovered in Eritrea A research coordinated by the University of Rome La Sapienza and the National Museum of Eritrea , led to the discovery of the first footprints of Homo erectus . These are traces left on the sand of a lake around which, 800,000
In Central America, during the classical period, many pyramids became funerary monuments. And are encapsulated in each other, like Russian dolls! The Temple of Kukulcan at Chichen Itza conceals two nesting pyramids. Rising up to the sky, La Danta (tapir, in Spanish) dominates the emerald canopy o