Comment les premiers humains sont-ils arrivés...

L’histoire de la barbe de François Ier est aussi étonnante qu’inattendue. Si le roi de France est souvent représenté avec une barbe soigneusement taillée, c’est en réalité pour dissimuler une cicatrice au menton, vestige d’un incident marquant de sa vie.

En 1521, Fra ...

Les conflits armés ont toujours existé, mais l’idée de réglementer la guerre pour limiter ses atrocités est relativement récente. Si les lois de la guerre telles qu’on les connaît aujourd’hui sont le fruit de plusieurs siècles d’évolution, elles trouvent leurs racines dans des ...

Among all the continents of Earth, Antarctica remains both the most inhospitable and the most mysterious. Today the only humans on the landmass are researchers and their support staff, charged with studying climate change, the local ecosystem and the unique creatures that call th ...  Show more

Among all the continents of Earth, Antarctica remains both the most inhospitable and the most mysterious. Today the only humans on the landmass are researchers and their support staff, charged with studying climate change, the local ecosystem and the unique creatures that call ...

Many brave sailors arrived in North and South America long before Columbus, suggesting that trans-oceanic voyages could be accomplished centuries before his voyage. Some think that the Atlantic was crossed as far back as the Bronze Age. While written records of such voyages are o ...  Show more

Roughly 40,000 years ago, Ice Age Britain was undergoing a transformation. 

The first modern humans, Homo sapiens, were arriving and beginning to settle in the British Isles. Their evolutionary predecessors, the Neanderthals, were on their way to extinc ...