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
In 1095 Pope Urvanos proclaimed the crusade to expel the Muslims from the Holy Land. For the following years the crusades continued. In 1212 a 12-year-old, Stephen of Cloyes-sur-le-Loir, was received by the French king in Paris. Stephanos was followed by 30,000 children who started with the visio
The British Armored Division of 1940 comprised a light armored brigade with three mixed battalions, and a heavy brigade with three battalions of medium tanks. Their support was provided by an accompanying group comprising an infantry battalion, a small artillery regiment and an engineer company.The
September 1, 1939:Invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht (the German army). September 3:France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. May 10, 1940:Hitler launches his army into the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Quickly Belgium capitulated and the city of Calais fell. The Franco-British troop