Nearly 400 mysterious stone structures thought to have been created by man over 2,000 years ago have been identified in the Saudi desert by an Australian researcher using Google Earth. Undated photo provided by University of Western Australia showing mysterious stone structures in the Saudi desert
This navigational instrument from the end of the 15th century was discovered off the coast of Oman, on the wreck of the Esmeralda, a ship of Vasco da Gamas second expedition. A photo of an astrolabe, the oldest ever discovered A UK-based shipwreck hunter claims to have found the oldest known naut
An encyclopedic work, published in the Études degyptologie collection of Soleb editions, offers for the first time a synthesis of the history of the civilizations that have succeeded each other in Sudan, from prehistory to the contemporary world. Necropolis of Meroe, Sudan. Pyramid of Queen Amanit
Kyrgyzstans decision to bury its only 1,500-year-old mummy has angered the scientific world. He accuses the authorities of giving in to psychics in this Central Asian country where superstitions remain deeply rooted. Almazbek Atambayev, the outgoing president of Kyrgyzstan, at the UN headquarters
ScanPyramids mission scientists publish in Nature this November 2, 2017 their discovery of a huge cavity in the great pyramid of Cheops. Could we find the pharaohs mummy there? On the left, Sébastien Prosecutor, from the CEA, in front of the muon detector used to scan the entrails of the Cheops py
Guillemette Andreu-Lanoé, former director of the Egyptian Antiquities department at the Louvre, and Peter Der Manuelian, professor of Egyptology at Harvard University, comment on the discovery of a 30-meter-long cavity in the pyramid of Cheops. A 3D view of the Cheops pyramid. This November 2, 2
The Emissive company has designed a virtual reality exhibition to explore the great pyramid of Cheops and understand how muon detectors helped locate a new secret cavity. Muons, cosmic particles, have made it possible to explore the unfathomable. PYRAMID. Explore the inaccessible chambers of the
Historian Daniel Jaquet conducts research on the art of combat in the Middle Ages... and tests armor on him! Historian Daniel Jaquet in the flight taking him from Geneva to New York on September 20, 2017. Neither Godefroy de Montmirail, nor knight of Puy du Fou, Daniel Jaquet exercises a very ser
A 12th-century medieval hoard containing (among other things) more than 2,200 silver denarii and 21 gold Muslim dinars was discovered at Cluny Abbey. And it was an archeology student who first saw the treasure during the excavations! The 21 Muslim gold dinars, found among 2,200 silver denarii and
Since 2017, hundreds of prehistoric stone structures have been found in northwest Saudi Arabia. Their recent study revealed ritual installations dating back 7,000 years. These rectangular structures, also called mustatils, are scattered across Saudi Arabia. They could be part of a prehistoric cult
A 3,500-year-old Minoan seal collected in 2015 among the treasures of the Tomb of the Warrior with the Griffin, shakes up the history of art in the Greek world. Original and incredibly detailed reconstruction of the battle scene found engraved on a Bronze Age agate seal, barely 3.5 cm. A delicate
For the first time, a French president is officially committed to the question of the restitution of objects of African heritage. A spectacular decision that takes its predecessors on the wrong foot. African statuettes exhibited in a French museum A sentence pronounced by Emmanuel Macron during h
The CNRS and Inria have joined the ScanPyramids mission to develop a robotic concept that is as least invasive as possible to explore hard-to-reach places such as the Cheops pyramid. The folded robot can slip through a 3.5 cm diameter hole drilled in a wall, to deploy on the other side taking the
Discovered in 1991, this cavern immersed in the creeks of Marseille is home to superb prehistoric paintings. Digital readings can be made available to scientists and the general public. The cave is immersed in the Calanque de la Triperie. Topographic surveys will be carried out by divers and archa
Statues representing Sekhmet, the lioness-headed deity, have been unearthed near the Colossi of Memnon, in Luxor, Egypt. Black granite statue representing the goddess Sekhmet, discovered in Luxor (Upper Egypt). A collection of 27 fragmented statues of the Egyptian goddess with the body of a woma
Caesar and his legions attempted to invade Britain twice as early as 55 BCE. One such landing site has been discovered in Kent. Marble bas-relief by John Deare (1759-1798) illustrating the attempted invasion of England by Jules Cesar. He came, he saw… he left… Iron weapons and Roman javelins, rec
A representation of a camel was discovered for the first time in Upper Paleolithic art, in the Ural steppes. Discovery of the first prehistoric camelid in Paleolithic art. Coming to save frescoes in a prehistoric cave in the southern Urals at the invitation of Russian researchers, a renowned rest
Claimed by Algiers, France was to return 36 skulls of Algerian insurgents killed in the 19th century, during colonization and kept at the Musée de lHomme. So far, she has handed over 24. Prehistoric and historical skulls preserved in the anthropological collections of the Musée de lHomme, in Par
Science and the Future 851 is on newsstands. Our cover story:the great adventure of the lost cities. Presentation in text and video by Dominique Leglu, the editorial director. The cover of Sciences et Avenir 851. We all have something of an explorer in us. Child, it is undeniable, as soon as arms
Analyzed by French paleographers, the Codex Borbonicus has just revealed the sophisticated techniques that the Aztecs used to obtain sumptuous reds and blues, capable of crossing the centuries. The chemists determined which organic materials went into the composition of each color in the manuscrip
This is a new harvest of the most auspicious for the archaeologists of Mesoamerica:no less than 478 new ceremonial sites have been detected thanks to LiDAR technology in the state of Tabasco, in southern Mexico. Their standardized blueprints indicate that this type of architecture was formalized ear
For obvious reasons, deciphering the ancient writings It has been one of the objectives of historians and scholars of the cultures that created them:knowing how to read ancient texts, one would learn more and better about everything related to religion, customs, history and daily life. But some of t
Previously we have given an account here of the excavations in the area of the Palace of Nestor in Pylos, and some of the spectacular discoveries that it is bringing. The director of the project himself, archaeologist Michael Cosmopoulos, from the University of Missouri-San Luis, has recently affi
Archaeological site of El Salt, in Spain, where ancient human excrement was found (photo Reuters) Everything is useful for understanding history, even ... the excrement . In the prehistoric site of El Salt , in Spain, fossilized excrements almost certainly human have been found , which