Au cours des deux derniers siècles, notre compréhension du passé de l'humanité s’est considérablement enrichie à mesure que des fouilles sur six continents ont permis de découvrir les histoires de nos ancêtres.
Le masque de Toutankhamon est l'un des plus grands trésors de l'histoire de l'art. Découvert le 28 octobre 1925 par l'archéologue britannique Howard Carter, ce masque d'or et de...
André Houot There is little to no info about this amazing illustrator online. A wiki page has a brief synopsis on him, but I was hard pressed to find any of his work for sale. Many of these piece…
Les tombes de chefs guerriers au Panama renfermaient des artefacts en or, des joyaux et de précieux indices sur une civilisation disparue.
Statue of King Gudea; dolerite; Tello, Iraq; 2130BC © The Trustees of the British Museum. LONDON .- A new British Museum touring exhibition Ancient Iraq: new discoveries marks the first time that the Museum will tour new Iraq field research in combination...
Les fouilles archéologiques se poursuivent près des pyramides en Egypte, Ola El Aguizy égyptologue et professeure émérite à l’université du Caire nous raconte les trésors récemment retrouvés dans la Vallée des Rois.
In 1961, an extraordinary treasure was found in a cave near the Dead Sea known as Nahal Mishmar. Hidden in a natural crevice and wrapped in a straw mat, the hoard contained 442 different objects: 429 of copper, six of hematite, one of stone, five of hippopotamus ivory, and one of elephant ivory. Many of the copper objects in the hoard were made using the lost-wax process, the earliest known use of this complex technique. For tools, nearly pure copper of the kind found at the mines at Timna in the Sinai Peninsula was used. However, the more elaborate objects were made with a copper containing a high percentage of arsenic (4–12%), which is harder than pure copper and more easily cast.Radiocarbon dating showed that they were from the Chalcolithic or Copper Age, between 4000 and 3500 BC. The difficulty with interpreting these objects is that the collection is absolutely unique, and some of these objects are like nothing ever seen anywhere else. The round knobs are usually said to be mace heads, but there is no evidence that any of them was ever used in combat. The remaining objects are even more obscure. The most common objects were 118 of these "standards" or "scepters." What they really were is anybody's guess. Some had traces of reeds or wood in the holes, suggesting that they were attached to poles. There are ten of these cylindrical objects in the hoard. They are conventionally known as "crowns," but more archaeologists think they were stands for vessels with pointed bottoms. What is one to make of this hippopotamus ivory object, essentially a slice from a hippo's tooth drilled with as many holes as would fit? This object seems to be proof that the pushmi-pullyu really existed in the Chalcolithic era. More images. The closest major site of this period is a shrine at the oasis of Ein Gedi, 7 miles (12 km) away, and the objects may have been hidden when the shrine was under some kind of threat. The cave is in a steep ravine, accessible only with ropes and ladders, so it would have made a good hiding place. So good that this amazing collection of objects remained hidden for 5500 years.
Visiter Pétra est incontournable lors d'un voyage en Jordanie. Une cité mythique à découvrir, l'une des merveilles de notre planète. En savoir + sur Pétra !
Jean-Pierre Moreau est historien et docteur en archéologie. Il vient de publier aux éditions du Trésor Une histoire des chasseurs de trésors, somme de nombreuses années de recherche sur le thème de la piraterie. Il est l’auteur d’Une histoire des pirates et de Pirates : Flibustes et piraterie dans la Caraïbe et les mers du sud, ouvrages de référence sur le sujet. Nous publions sur RetroNews un chapitre entier extrait de son nouveau livre, agrémenté de trois récits d’illustres flibustes datés du XVIIe siècle tirés de nos archives.
L'Arche d'alliance est un des trésors les plus recherchés de l'histoire de l'Humanité. Disparue depuis près de 2 500 ans, un archéologue l’aurait retrouvée, ainsi que du sang du Christ, mais ses travaux n'ont jamais été publiés ! Selon la Bible, il...
SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND—Twenty-two shipwrecks have been discovered and mapped in a 17-square-mile area near Greece’s Fourni […]
Vidéo - Depuis le mois de juin au Royaume-Uni et en Irlande, les fortes chaleurs ont mis au jour des vestiges archéologiques datant parfois de plusieurs millénaires.
The Qanat, an underground infrastructure capable of collecting and channeling rainwater from aquifers and valleys, transporting it to cities. qanat,
Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered a 3,500 year old sphere-based measuring system used to regulate trade in the Middle East
One of the most important hoards of Viking silver ever found in Britain contains valuable coins bearing the identity of a previously unknown ruler, it emerged yesterday.
The grave, crammed with Greek and possibly Etruscan artefacts, was discovered in a business zone on the outskirts of Lavau in France's Champagne...
Jeux et activités sur l'Egypte ancienne pour s'amuser au temps de pharaons à résoudre des énigmes ou écrire des hiéroglyphes.
Un paysage fantomatique de souches pétrifiées émergeant du sable a fait son apparition sur une plage du Pays de Galles en Grande-Bretagne. Plusieurs vestiges de l’âge du Bronze avaient déjà été découverts à cet endroit.
An "exceptional" tomb from the 5th Century BC likely to be that of a Celtic prince is unearthed on the outskirts of Lavau in France's Champagne region.
Deep inside the medieval fortified monastery in Greece, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts.
The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.
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