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The capture of the emperor Aztec Cuauhtémoc by Cortez in 1521, according to Carlos Maria Esquivel (1830-1867)
The leper before the conquerors
The conquistadors did not bring leprosy into the new world as we thought, according to a new international study. In May, in the journal Sciencean areopical of summit of biology and anthropology explains that one of the two bacteria responsible for leprosy, M. lepromatosisexisted long before the arrival of the Spaniards in Central America. She always causes leprosy, much more frequently than M. Leprosythe other bacteria that causes the disease, that which has arrived in the new world with the conquistadors. M. Leprosy Arrived in Europe ago from 2000 to 2,500 years ago from India, brought by soldiers from Alexander Le Grand, or from Africa.
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The ruins of Carthage, in Tunisia
Few Phoenicians in Carthage
The Phoenicians founded the city of Carthage, located in Tunisia, but did not colonize it, according to European, Israeli and American researchers. Between 1000 and 500 before Jesus Christ, from current Lebanon, the Phoenicians founded dozens of “punic” colonies everywhere in the Mediterranean. The best known, Carthage, has led to the foundation of other colonies in the west of this sea. In the review Nature, At the end of April, it is explained that 210 remains found in punic colonies had very little Phoenician blood. These people of merchants therefore remained withdrawn from the commercial counters which he founded, limiting themselves to transmitting their commercial culture.
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Neanderthal skull found in the Chapelle-aux-Saints cave, in Corrèze
Eat asticots
American researchers published in July, in Science Advances, The results of a study explaining why Neanderthals had as much nitrogen in their bodies as “hypercarnivores”, like lions and wolves, which draw this nitrogen from their consumption of large mammals. It was a mystery, since no modern human can bear a only carnivorous diet. By analyzing the larvae of three families of flies, the anthropologists of Michigan and Indiana demonstrated that they were much richer in nitrogen than meat. This means that the Neanderthals were feeding on growing larvae in putrefied meat, as did certain indigenous cultures, including Inuit.
Photo taken from the site of the city of Bayeux
The Bayeux tapestry measures almost 70 meters.
A villa on a tapestry
Bayeux tapestry is the introduction. This work of the Middle Ages, which describes the two years preceding the invasion of England by Guillaume the conqueror in 1066, has 37 buildings over its 70 meters in length. One of them is the residence of the last Anglo-Saxon king, Harold, according to archaeologists from the University of Newcastle, in Great Britain. In January, in theAntiquaries Journalthey describe the similarities between one of the tapestry buildings and a mansion of the XIe century uncovered in 2006 in Bosham, near Portsmouth. However, according to the tapestry, King Harold would have found himself twice in Bosham. King Harold died at the battle of Hastings in the hands of Guillaume Le Normand.
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The Gordion site, in the center of Turkey, where Midas family graves were uncovered
News from Midas
Since the 1950s, archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania have patiently sought the grave of the legendary King Midas in the ruins of Gordion, in the center of current Turkey. In June, they announced the discovery of a tomb “of the family of Midas”, this king of VIIIe century BC who had the reputation of changing what he touched in gold. By way of press release, American archaeologists and their Turkish counterparts described this grave, the most promising discovery to help them find that of Midas since the discovery, in 1957, of another burial which turned out to be that of the father of Midas, Gordias.
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Korean pottery and Yayoi having noted that sushi is the heir to the eating habits of the ancestors of the Ainus.
Fish and millet in Japan
3000 years ago, the culture of rice and millet migrated from Korea to Japan, sounding the death knell for the lifestyle of Jomons hunter-gatherers, the ancestors of the current Aboriginal people of Japan, the Ainus. But the establishment of Japanese agricultural culture Yayoi, from which modern Japanese descend, has not simply reproduced the Korean example: the millet was cultivated, but little included in the Yayoi kitchen, which replaced it with the fish, following the Jomon example. In other words, the importance of fish in Japanese cuisine is a legacy of the Ainus, in July concluded British, Korean and Japanese archaeologists in the journal Pnas.