Even before the start of the First World War, Italy was in a terrible economic crisis. In AD 1911-12, the Turkish-war ended with the victory of Italy and the imperial citizens of Italy were happy with their possession of Tripoli in North Africa, but this victory did not improve the economic conditio
To understand this message, one must remember the setbacks and hardships of a long winter:the total failure of the British thrust on Tunis at the end of November 1942, the failure of the French offensive in December on the pivot of the Dorsale and that of the English, on Christmas Day, in front of L
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The sarcophagi unearthed in wells in Saqqara present, despite their 2,500 years, a perfect state of preservation • AFP / KHALED DESOUKI Egyptian archaeologists descend, hanging from a rope, into these narrow burial shafts, measuring up to 12 m deep. They have just discovered in one of them, on t