Renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass believes he has located a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings. It could be that of Ankhesenamon, the wife of Tutankhamun... General view of the Valley of the Kings and its pharaonic tombs, near present-day Luxor, Egypt. NECROPOLIS. A new mystery? Egyptologists b
Ötzi, the mummified body of a Neolithic hunter found in 1991 in a puddle of ice, will soon be the hero of the film Iceman . An adventure feature film telling in the form of a fiction what his life could have been like at the time. The Ötzi mummy is the result of the natural mummification of the re
A monumental burial on which is engraved the longest epitaph ever found in Pompeii (Italy) has just been unearthed. The monumental tomb with a 4 m long epitaph was found near the Stabiae Gate, in Pompei (Italy). Archaeology . It is once again a prestigious vestige of the past which has just resur
The most prestigious pieces of Tutankhamuns treasure are gradually leaving the old Egyptian Museum where they had been on display for a century to reach the Grand Egyptian Museum , built very close to the pyramids. Tutankhamuns royal chariot, clad in gold leaf and encrusted with colored glass and
An entire suburb of Roman Vienne extending over 7,000 square meters was unearthed during a preventive archeology operation carried out on the banks of the Rhône since April 2017. Preserved by multiple fires, the buildings discovered by archaeologists present an incredible state of preservation. T
The Alpine massif regularly restores human remains due to climate change and the constant retreat of glaciers. Mont-Blanc Massif in Haute-Savoie. The glaciers are gradually shedding their human remains. In mid-July, the Swiss gendarmes discovered a couple who disappeared 75 years ago, perfectly p
Despite its impressive appearance, the Borealopelta markmitchelli d had to camouflage itself to escape its predators. Artistic representation of Borealopelta markmitchelli . Borealopelta markmitchelli lived 110 million years ago in the region of Alberta, Canada. It was a big dinosaur, 5.5 meters
An exceptional 12th-13th century sculpture has been unearthed in the temple complex of Angkor, Cambodia. Discovery of an important statue from the end of the 12th century, on the site of Angkor, in Cambodia. The surprise was total. No sooner had their second day of work begun than a team of archa
New 2,000-year-old documents have been unearthed at the Roman fortress of Vindolanda in northern England. One of the most exceptional archaeological sites in Europe. Cleaning of a fragment of a wooden tablet revealing 2000 year old Roman writings. The Roman fortress of Vindolanda (1st -5e century
A Viking enclosure dating from the reign of Harald the Blue Tooth has been discovered south of Copenhagen. Inset, the Viking fortress of Borgring, Denmark. 3D rendering from LIDAR data. A perfect circle! One ring to rule them all … Aerial surveys carried out using LIDAR (airborne laser scanning)
Examination of a 15,000 year old human radius shows that it was carved, and confirms that ritual cannibalism was practiced in Goughs Cave, in Great Britain, already famous for its skulls transformed into cups. The cave of the cannibals of Gough (Great Britain) delivered a human radius engraved wit
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
Between 1849 and 1874, tens of thousands of workers who came from China to work in Peru were abusively exploited. One of sixteen 19th century Chinese immigrant burials century recently discovered at a pre-Inca site in Lima, Peru. ARCHAEOLOGY. But what were Chinese burials doing in a pre-Inca pyra
Tunisian and Italian researchers were able to explore the remains of the city of Neapolis, part of which had been swallowed up by a tsunami. The remains of a sunken city have been discovered off the coast of Nabeul, Tunisia. This is a major discovery because it comes to corroborate stories dating
Two hundred years after their disappearance, proof of the survival of some survivors of the La Pérouse expedition was discovered on the island of Vanikoro in the Pacific Ocean in 1999. New clues now suggest that some sailors may have managed to leave the island…. King Louis XVI giving his instruct
In ancient times, the Pnyx hill, where Emmanuel Macron chose to speak, was used to host the Assembly of Citizens of Athens. Paulin Ismard, historian of ancient Greece, discusses the importance of this cradle of democracy. View of the Pnyx, the hill of Athens west of the Acropolis, where the assem
Archaeologists have discovered near Luxor the tomb of an important New Kingdom goldsmith, as well as several mummies, masks and statuettes. An archaeologist restores a sarcophagus in the recently discovered tomb of the goldsmith of Amun, Amenemhat, near Luxor in southern Egypt. The necropolis of
The identification of a prestigious Viking warrior through genetic analysis offers new insight into this society. Conclusions that should lead to more caution in generalizing about the social organization of past societies. Warrior from the Viking series, illustrating the combat role that certain
Archaeologists have discovered the tomb of one of the oldest Mayan rulers in Péten, in northern Guatemala. Offerings surrounding the remains of a Maya ruler recently discovered at the site of El Peru-Waka, Guatemala. About twenty ceramic vases, spondylus , sacred shells from the waters of the Pac
Remains of the historic tsunami that succeeded the famous Lisbon earthquake (1755) have been identified in Martinique by archaeologists and geophysicists. This etching from 1755 shows the ruins of Lisbon in flames and a tsunami submerging ships in the port. It has long been the archetype of the t
Pen and inkwell The need to communicate and to fix ones thoughts has belonged to mankind since the dawn of civilization, an inalienable desire which, in the absence of adequate means and comfort, has been satisfied from the beginning with the help of the tools made available by nature. Thanks
The game exercised a constant fascination between Romans of any social class . It was very popular with the rich, and many of them played at night under the austere gaze of the statues of their ancestors. Immense fortunes were won or lost while the slaves lay frozen and forgotten, or so the satirist
A very strange figurine, undoubtedly representing a naked woman, was discovered in northeastern Germany, on the site of the oldest European battlefield. What could have been the function of this peaceful statuette made nearly 2,700 years ago, 600 years after the violent conflict that marked the Toll
A 3,500-year-old ancient casket containing intriguing offerings has been found in the region of Deir el-Bahari, a complex of temples and tombs, located on the left bank of the Nile, facing Luxor, in Egypt. It could signal the presence of an as yet unidentified royal tomb. Enamel box decorated with