We used to think that the Vikings from Greenland who landed in North America only had unfriendly encounters with American Indians. Excavations on Baffin Island reveals that there may have been a commercial trade between the Scandinavians and the Dorsets.

April 2012 in Timbuktu: Al-Quaïda soldiers,in the Maghreb, threaten to destroy the rare manuscripts of the city. A librarian organises a network in order to put them in a safe place.

A team of German researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Institute for Archaeological Sciences of Tubingen University could have identified the nature of the disease that decimated the Aztecs in the 16th century.

How the discovery of a 3,400-year-old Sumerian hymn challenged the theories about the origins of occidental music.