More than 200,000 years ago, our ancestors stored bones for several weeks to eat the marrow during periods of lean hunting, new work reveals. Until recently, it was thought that our Paleolithic ancestors were hunter-gatherers who lived from day to day... The reality would have been very different.
Vercingetorix has marked the imagination of the French. A look back at this historical figure on September 27, the supposed date of Vercingetorixs surrender in Alésia in 52 BC. The new Asterix album will be released on October 24, 2019. The adventures of Asterix the Gaul, whose new adventures wil
Discovered in a vast cavity on two levels within a necropolis of the former royal capital of Thebes, these sarcophagi are far from having given up their secrets. Further details are expected to be communicated on Saturday, October 19, 2019 during an on-site press conference. A photograph of the sa
The cache of an important set of about thirty colored and intact coffins have been unearthed on the banks of the Nile. They could relate to priests of Amun whose sarcophagi had been concealed during disturbances under the 22e dynasty. The sarcophagi of El-Asasif (Egypt) presented to the press on O
A team of archaeologists has managed to precisely date the construction of a paved street discovered under Jerusalem:it would have been traced around the year 30, during the mandate of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate. View of the Temple Mount, within the walls of Jerusalem. In almost half a cen
Brittany still holds amazing treasures. Carved in stone, rare Gallic statues from the 1st century BC have just been identified by teams from Inrap (National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research) , during archaeological excavations carried out in the Côtes-dArmor. Figure of a Gallic ari
An international team has just published the first complete survey, using the airborne laser technique, of the city of Mahendraparvata, one of the first Khmer capitals of the 9th century, founded by King Jayavarman II in Cambodia. View of a mountain temple being cleared at the site of Mahendrapa
In Rome, the Vatican, which brings together all the institutions of the Catholic Church, has just announced the renaming of its famous Secret Archives to dispel the aura of mystery and intrigue that has long plagued it. surrounded… In the heart of the Secret Archives of the Vatican, in Rome (Ital
Winter winds associated with dust storms are said to have contributed to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia. Imprint of the cylinder seal of Ibni-sharrum, scribe of Shar-kali-sharri, masterpiece of Akkadian glyptics (Louvre Museum) Between the 24th and 22nd centuries BCE, the Akka
The consumption of a plant could have been the source of the sacred fury of the berserk warriors described in the Scandinavian sagas. Reproduction of one of the Torslunda bronze plaques (8th century), discovered in Öland, Sweden. She would represent a berserk warrior or berserker (on the right), i
The Roman people, genetically stable and homogeneous? Certainly not, according to new archaeo-genetic work, corroborating the great genetic transitions of this people over 12,000 years with two great waves of migrations linked to agriculture and trade. At its height, the ancient Roman Empire encom
Unearthed in 2017 in the north of England, new tablets detailing the lives of Roman soldiers at the limes of the empire have just been translated and published. Letter from Masclus to Julius Verecundus, from Vindolanda. It is a new batch of four wooden plaques covered with writings traced in ink,
The recent metagenomic study of a bloodstain of the famous mountain revolutionary assassinated in 1793 provides new information on the diseases from which he suffered. Sampling for analysis of the Ami du Peuple page stained with the blood of Marat. The painting by painter David The Death of Marat
Scientists have proceeded to the opening of the supposed tomb of Montaigne in Bordeaux and have taken out a coffin on which appears the name of the famous philosopher of the 16e century. But additional investigations are necessary to identify the bones that are inside… a second lead coffin. The s
Japanese archaeologists have discovered unknown geoglyphs with human and animal shapes in the Nazca Plain, south of Lima, Peru. With his feather headdress, this character with anthropoid features is one of the hundred new geoglyphs discovered in the Nazca region. Japanese scientists from Yamagata
Flint, drugs and rockn roll:life in the Palaeolithic was much more exciting than you might imagine! Focus on the cave paintings of the Chauvet cave and the vision they give us of these paleoartists, in a documentary by Sciences et Avenir . The Chauvet cave is a whole bestiary:lions, bears, aurochs
After the discovery in 2017 of a huge void in the Great Pyramid, on the Giza plateau, in Egypt, the ScanPyramids mission delivers its latest results... And the mystery grows a little more! 3D image of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, and its horizontal representation of the Big Void, the huge unknown
In the Altai Mountains in southern Siberia, prehistorians have discovered the remains of a 45,000-year-old lion figurine, perhaps the oldest in the world. Lion figurine fragment discovered in level 11 of Denisova Cave, Altai, Siberia (Russia). A chest with a dress decorated with hatching colored
Three San hunters from Namibia recently participated in the study of millennial footprints preserved in a cave in the Hérault. Amazing scientists with the extent of their knowledge. San trackers came from Namibia to study 10,000-year-old footprints in the Aldène cave, in Hérault. Since the passa
A Viking ship grave, burial mounds and five longhouses have been discovered in Norway, thanks to the use of ground-penetrating radar Viking grave ship detected by georadar in Norway To reach Valhalla, their paradise, Viking warriors sometimes embarked for Odins palace aboard large ships... Archae
After the collapse of the roadway in a square in Amiens, the citys risk management department conducted the investigation. And determined the reasons for the disaster. Hole formed in the city center of Amiens. During a patrol, a municipal police patrol was surprised to discover in the city center
When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Rectina and her husband, who lived in a luxurious seaside villa in Herculaneum, began packing up her large library of papyri for safe keeping. Rectina, who was a personal friend of Pliny the Elder, who at the time was across the bay at Misenum in command of the Roman
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
In August 2015, the French archaeologist Jean-Baptiste Yon paid tribute to the former director of the Department of Antiquities of the archaeological site of Palmyra, in Syria, assassinated in mid-August 2015 by Daesh. We are republishing this testimony as Palmyra is liberated. Khaled Asaad (or Kha