Egypt has just presented the gilded wooden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun, being restored for the first time since its discovery in 1922. The gilded wooden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in a sterilization and stabilization chamber, in the laboratories of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Cairo (Egypt). E
French researchers have found that women and men have a different cochlea. A discovery that will have an impact in archeology but also in forensic medicine. The colored dots illustrate the difference in torsion between a womans cochlea (left) and a mans cochlea (right). In both men and women, the
Seventhth Buddhist writings century have just been discovered in the mountains of Afghanistan. Statue of a Buddha from the 7th century century discovered at the archaeological site of Més Aynak, south of Kabul, Afghanistan. Before becoming a land of Islam, from the conquest of the Umayyad dynasty
When two genetically distant individuals reproduce, they can pass on traits that give an evolutionary advantage. This phenomenon is called introgression and it would have accelerated our evolution by allowing us to colonize the planet. Love stories between different human species would have accele
A new concept of total war has just been defined concerning the Maya of the classical period (250-950). Paleoenvironmental and epigraphic studies dispute the role that a sudden escalation of violence in IX-Xe could have played centuries, to justify the decline of the Lowland Maya. On the contrary, t
After 2000 years spent in the soil of the ancient city, talismans and lucky charms were found in a box in Pompeii. Gems, amulets, and other talismans found in a box exhumed in the House of the Garden, on the site of Pompeii (Italy). The gri-gris werent enough to save them! Phallic amulets, magic
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
Art restorers are peeling the walls of Central Asia to recover the centuries-old paintings that adorn them. Destination:Saint-Petersburg, for a small toilet in their workshops. An in-house technique cultivated and perfected since the 1940s, within the Hermitage Museum. From Oriental murals to Ital
More than 170 years after the mysterious disappearance of the British ship HMS Terror in the Canadian Arctic, never-before-seen images of the wreck have been released:they reveal a well-preserved interior that could shed new light on this legendary expedition. First images of the wreck of the Terr
In this new review of the German-speaking scientific press, an archaeologist questions the origin of the Nebra disk, human cells on microchip could replace animal testing, a factory in Saxony will soon be transformed into an innovation campus to develop hydrogen research, and neuroscientist Stefan K
SERIES. For many heritage researchers, the gigantic Notre-Dame de Paris construction site must be an opportunity to carry out excavations that are difficult, or even impossible in normal times, on a site whose history is ultimately very incomplete. The interior of Notre-Dame Cathedral, where the c
The description and the role of the ark of the covenant are very changing according to the accounts of the Old Testament studied. The explanations of specialist Thomas Römer, who has just been appointed head of the Collège de France. This text is taken from Sciences et Avenir 863, dated January 2019
Succeeding Alain Prochiantz, Thomas Römer has just taken over as head of the prestigious Collège de France. Thomas Römer, new administrator of the Collège de France. Since September 1, 2019, Professor Thomas Römer has become the new administrator of the Collège de France, in Paris. Holder of the
About sixty graves of newborns, buried 2,000 years ago, have recently been unearthed at the foot of the ancient Roman ramparts of the city of Nîmes. Allegorical relief dating from the 2th century of our era, where the stillbirth rate was very high. Experts estimate that one in three children died
Genetic analyzes reveal the kinship between victims of the massacres of the Mongol Golden Horde in Russia in 1238. Relatives identified in a medieval mass grave in Russia. According to the texts, the arrival of the Mongols in the 13th century in what is now Russia was a surge of horsemen of the A
Emblematic testimony of the Celtic princely phenomenon, the famous tomb of la Dame de Vix, whose original excavation carried out in 1953 had revealed one of the greatest movable treasures discovered in France, is the subject of a new study aimed at put this extraordinary find into context. On the
Archaeo-luthery specialists have carried out research on the ancient instruments represented in sculpture in the dungeon. They discovered that one of them, unknown until then, had really existed. A digital model of the psaltery in shield of the music room of the castle of Puivert, in Aude. In the
An American treasure seeker, who has been probing the archives of Robinson Crusoe Island in the Juan Fernandez archipelago for more than 20 years, has just obtained authorization to search a specific area using a device mechanical. A decision that is causing debate in this protected sector. Robins
2,000 years old, manuscripts of Herculaneum belonging to the Institut de France are currently being studied in England. The application of new non-invasive techniques could accelerate their decryption. Digitization of one of the two rolls of Herculaneum from the Institut de France (Paris), at the
The discovery in Narbonne, in Aude, of a Roman necropolis is unique in France. Roman necropolis unearthed in Narbonne, October 7, 2019 To Festus, 10, and Aquila, 8, Iulia Protogenia to her darlings :nearly 2,000 years later, the discovery in Narbonne, in the Aude, of a Roman necropolis unique in
Scientists have debated for years why Bronze Age wall paintings found at the ancient settlement of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini depict monkeys of a species that lived thousands of miles away in Asia. It has been suggested that, indeed, during the Bronze Age there could have been contac
Classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the medieval city of Carcassonne is a remarkable and unique example of a fortified city, with its castle, its towers and its long and powerful ramparts. The city has been the subject of exceptional restoration campaigns since the 19th century, mainly led b
The Egyptian archaeological mission that works in the necropolis of sacred animals of Saqqara managed to discover the largest set of statues and sarcophagi dating from the late period, during the work of the fourth season of excavations. According to Dr. Mustafa Waziri, secretary general of the Sup
The tomb of a priest dating back more than 4,400 years was discovered at the site of Saqqara, near Cairo, by an Egyptian archaeological mission, authorities announced on December 15, 2018. The tomb of the priest named Wahtye dates from the 5th Dynasty (between 2,500 and 2,300 BC), during the reign