Comment les premiers humains sont-ils arrivés...

Imaginez une guerre déclenchée… non pas par un roi, un général ou une frontière contestée, mais par un pâtissier. Et pourtant, c’est bien ce qui s’est passé au XIXᵉ siècle avec ce qu’on appelle aujourd’hui la Guerre des Pâtisseries.L’histoire commence au Mexique, dans les années ...  Show more

La conspiration des poudres de 1605 est l’un des attentats politiques les plus célèbres de l’histoire britannique. Un projet radical : faire exploser le Parlement anglais pour décapiter le pouvoir d’un seul coup. Nous sommes dans l’Angleterre du début du XVIIᵉ siècle, sous le règ ...  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 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 ...