Pierre Henri de Valenciennes represented in 1813 the death of the admiral and scholar Pliny the Elder, who sought to help the victims of the eruption. Augustins Museum, Toulouse • WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Slight earthquakes have been sweeping the Gulf of Naples for several days. Simple unpredictable jo
Nazi concentration camps were built from 1933 onwards and became known for being places where millions of people (mostly Jewish) were killed. Nazi concentration camps were constructions developed during the Nazi Germany who are extremely well-known for imprisoning and promoting the extermination of
The role of Philippe Auguste in the Holy Land:has caused a lot of ink to flow. We have opposed and still oppose, not without some apparent truth, the chivalrous behavior of the Englishman to the subterfuges of the French. To the point of sometimes forgetting that Saint-Jean-dAcre was taken thanks to
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