Yugoslavia, for a number of reasons, offered little resistance to the German invasion in April 1941. The main reason was considered, from the Serbian side, the defection of the Croats. In fact everything went wrong, and above all, the plan for the concentration of the Yugoslav army was wrong. After
The pyramid of Djoser, near Saqqara, whose particularity is to be in steps • ISTOCKPHOTO The oldest pyramid in Egypt, that of Djoser, erected around 4,700 years ago near the site of Saqqara, needed a major renovation. It took 14 years of work to revamp the old lady, seriously shaken by an earthq
The Battle of Mount Badon (Mons Badonicus in Latin, Mynydd Baddon in Welsh) is a battle won by the Bretons over the Anglo-Saxons around the year 500, during the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Brittany. The King Arthur myth surrounding the battle, as well as the scant and conflicting information that has c
Ancient Egypt, the land of mysticism, is one of the oldest and most culturally rich civilizations of all time. It is one of the only ancient civilizations that has managed to capture the imagination of scholars as well as ordinary people. The mystery surrounding its origins and its overwhelming achi