Tag: Archeology
Here Ivar and Sixten test archery on archeology day
Archeology Day was observed in several places in Blekinge on Sunday. Among other things, Blekinge Museum held guided tours at the Hjortsberga cemetery and at the Hjortsberga church outside Johannishus.…
menhirs destroyed in Carnac to make way for a DIY store
About forty small menhirs located near the famous alignments of Carnac (Morbihan, western France) were recently destroyed to allow the construction of a store, causing misunderstanding among heritage defenders. The…
Olmec statue of ‘Earth monster’ returned to Mexico by US
The United States has returned a giant stone statue, known as the ‘Earth Monster’, to Mexico from the pre-Columbian Olmec civilization, Mexican authorities have announced. It is “ the most…
Discovery of the oldest rune stone in the world
It’s an unexpected find: Norwegian archaeologists have unearthed what may be the world’s oldest runestone, dating back nearly 2,000 years. This discovery is major for experts in the field, because…
Sarcophagi discovered at Notre-Dame: “A very informative excavation”
/ Podcasts / Guest France By : Clementine Pawlotsky The preventive excavations which began after the fire which ravaged part of Notre-Dame de Paris in April 2019 made it possible…
Exhibition: the archaeological site of Byblos honored at the Louvre
It is in Byblos, one of the most important and most visited sites in Lebanon, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984, that new archaeological discoveries have just…
Australopithecus “Madame Ples” is finally a contemporary of Lucy
Lucy, the Australopithecus fossil that helped locate the cradle of humanity in East Africa, had a cousin living in southern Africa. An analysis published Monday, June 27 in an American…
Here was one of the greatest archaeological treasures in Europe: ‘Fibula? doesn’t tell me anything’
And no, this fibula is not the national association for palliative care or that Efteling attraction (it’s called Fabula), but a medieval cloak pin. These pins are regularly found in…
AF Steadman, the lady with the unicorn
First-time novelist AF Steadman publishes Skandar and the Flight of the Unicorn, a fantastic learning novel that will soon be adapted for the screen. Welcome to a novel of adventure…
Marseille: the replica of the Cosquer cave open to the public
Cultural report We knew the reproductions of the Lascaux cave or of Chauvet. In Marseille, there is now that of the Cosquer cave, the only submerged cave in which we…