Tag: archaeologists
Israel-Hamas: these archaeologists working to identify still unknown victims
William Molinié, edited by Alexandre Dalifard / Photo credit: GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP 06:03, November 10, 2023modified to 8:16 a.m., November 10, 2023 While the war between Israel and Hamas…
Archaeologists who are mild in age and nimble speedsters: the most important cinema highlights in June
Archaeologists who are mild in age and nimble speedsters The most important cinema highlights in June Warhorse versus youngster: Harrison Ford (left) is making his fifth appearance as Indiana Jones,…
China: Archaeologists in the process of recovering a sunken treasure from the Ming dynasty
Sébastien Le Belzic (in Beijing) / Photo credit: YANG GUANYU / XINHUA / XINHUA VIA AFP 06:15, May 31, 2023modified to 06:38, May 31, 2023 In China, archaeologists launched this…
Return of looted art from Rome – Italian archaeologists warn: Ancient statues with horses’ feet – culture
Contents Looted art returns to Italy. First there was joy. But not all works are as ancient as they seem. Apparently, clever art forgers have fooled some of those involved.…
Archaeologists find 31,000-year-old amputated skeleton
This is 25,000 years earlier than the oldest known amputation. The archaeologists are also in this case sure that it was not an accident. In a cave on Borneo, archaeologists…
Cinema quiz: in which films do we see these treasures? Only archaeologists will have any good!
“Fortune and Glory!” launched Half Moon in Indy in “The Temple of Doom”. The treasures in the cinema, it is an old tradition, filled with sometimes unscrupulous adventurers provided that…
Archaeologists discover mysterious 1,300-year-old shipwreck near Bordeaux
Unearthed in 2015, during preventive excavations before the construction of a vast real estate project a few hundred meters from the Garonne, this ship is “the second or third” dating…
In Normandy, the landing of archaeologists on the scene of D-Day
The archaeological excavation site of the Brécourt manor site, in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont (Manche), on May 17, 2022. QUENTIN BASSETTI FOR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE It is one of the great…
Egypt: Archaeologists discover five pharaonic tombs in Saqqara
“Responsible for the beauty of the king”, “intendant of the royal house”… The sarcophagi which were unearthed this Saturday in the necropolis of Memphis belonged to senior officials of ancient…
Archaeologists discover five tombs in Egypt’s Saqqara
Five tombs more than 4,000 years old have been discovered in the Egyptian necropolis of Sakkara, 30 kilometers south of Cairo. They are decorated with wall paintings and are well…
archaeologists called in as reinforcements for the excavations
NEWSLETTERS fun, news, tips… what else? While excavations are underway in Cagnac-les-Mines to find the body of Delphine Jubillar, who disappeared on the night of December 15 to 16, 2020,…
On the Acropolis, archaeologists and historians cry sacrilege
More than a hundred experts in Antiquity ask Greece to review the development project of the Athenian treasure, which consists in particular in rebuilding the marble staircase of the Propylaea.