The Losa nuraghe, near the town of Abbasanta in central western Sardinia, is one of the most important and best preserved sites of the nuragic culture • ISTOCK Scattered throughout Sardinia stand the remains of some 7,000 nuraghes, integrated with the elements and vegetation of the island. These
When the Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids in the 4de century BC ruled Mesopotamia or the Land of Two Streams, the civilization between the Tigris and the Euphrates had already come a long way in world history. For millennia, the inhabitants of this region – most of which are located in present-day
Isaac de Portau dit Porthos is a French soldier born in Pau on February 2, 1617 and died on an unknown date. He inspired Alexandre Dumas with the fictional character of Porthos in the novel The Three Musketeers. He comes from a Protestant family from Béarn, originally from Audaux (Pyrénées-Atlantiq
The Sumerians were an unknown people. Even the name by which they are known was given to them by archaeologists in the 19th century. Nevertheless, they left behind strong marks of their military art. From at least the 5th millennium, a great civilization flourished on the banks of the Tigris and