Atapuerca , location of several limestone caves near Burgos in Northern Spain , known for the abundant human (genus Homo ), discovered there from 1976 Sima del Elefante (Elephants Pit) contains the earliest evidence of humans in western Europe - fragments of a jawbone and of Teeth d
The Prussian cavalry at the beginning of the 18th century. and until about 1742, it followed obsolete tactics. The Prussian horsemen moved slowly against the enemy, so as to maintain their cohesion as much as possible, halting their movement several times to charge against him. When they were attack
Gallo-Roman remains of the archaeological site of Alesia, Burgundy, France • ISTOCKPHOTO At the end of the fall of 1860, workers working on the drainage of fields located at the foot of Mont Auxois, near the village of Alise-Sainte-Reine, came across an arsenal of weapons and bronze axes. . When
The abbey of Saint Gall (in German Sankt Gallen) was founded in the year 613 in the town that today bears his name in Switzerland by an Irish monk, Gallus of Hibernia. It would be one of the main Benedictine monasteries in Europe for many centuries. It flourished under the patronage of Pepin the S