An archaeologist and historian who specialises in Africa, François-Xavier Fauvelle wages a tireless battle against the prejudices concerning that continent. Recently elected professor at the Collège...
Last year, a group of scientists travelled to the hydrothermal site of Dallol in northern Ethiopia. In this extreme environment and against all odds, they discovered traces of life.
Between 1914 and 1918, the military conflict that set Europe ablaze was of unprecedented intensity. This First World War, which would have wide-ranging consequences—demographic, political, economic,...