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Crete is not just an island: it's a world. A mountain in the middle of the Aegean Sea, a crossroads of civilisations, a stage where every stone whispers a story. Ancient Crete and contemporary Crete make you dream....
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A holy city, a secular city, the capital of an empire and then of a faith, Rome cannot be visited: it has to be read and deciphered. You walk through it as if you were turning the pages of a historical novel, sometimes written in the ink of Seneca, sometimes...
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In 2003, Swiss archaeologists Charles Bonnet and Matthieu Honegger discovered a cache of forty fragments of black granite statues at Doukki Gel in Upper Nubia - now Sudan. The dismembered stones were to reveal...
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Jorge Olano, Peruvian archaeologist and co-Director of the Research Programme on Lines and Geoglyphs, and the University of Yamagata in Japan, headed by Professor Masato Sakai, have been working since 2004 to identify the Nazca geoglyphs. Interview with this passionate researcher....
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The Marquesans developed a monumental habitat and very specific sculptures, the tikis. More than 700 archaeological and legendary sites have been recorded in the archipelago, and the inventory is far from complete. They bear witness to a large Polynesian population before...
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