Jean-Pierre Mohen

Michel Menu

Bruno Mottin

Applying the cutting-edge forensic techniques of television's "CSI" to the world's most famous painting yields a fresh look at how Leonardo's masterwork was constructed.

Inside the Painting

Mona Lisa

Ahmad Hasan Dani

J L Lorenzo

V M Masson

T Ortega

M B Sakelariou

B K Thapar

Zhang Changshou

S J de Laet

Written by the most distinguished scholars, 'History of Humanity' recounts humankind's extraordinary voyage through time, from its first faltering steps three million years ago. Every known culture is represented in this monumental overview.

History of Humanity – Vol. II – From the Third Millennium to the Seventh Century B.C.

Christiane Eluere

Is an illustrated tour of European culture from the third to the first millennium BC. (Discoveries Series).

Discoveries: Bronze Age in Europe

L'humanité se définit par son rapport à la mort. De cette relation essentielle à l'au-delà , qui donne son sens à l'existence, les rites funéraires sont la trace. Jean-Pierre Mohen nous les fait découvrir, dans leur richesse, leur variété, leur étrangeté parfois. Du paléolithique aux débuts du néolithique, en passant par l'Égypte, la Gréce, la Rome antique ou encore la vieille Chine, jusqu'au Moyen-âge et à la Renaissance ; de Jéricho à l'île de P‚ques et à Madagascar, du Groenland au Soudan. Il nous révéle ainsi quelle fut jadis la vision qu'avaient les hommes de l'au-delà aussi bien que de l'ici-bas, et comment, selon les lieux et les temps, elle s'est modifiée. Jean-Pierre Mohen dirige actuellement le laboratoire de recherche des Musées de France.

Rites de l'au-delà (Les)

Christiane Eluère

The heroes of the Iliad and Odyssey fought with shields and swords of bronze. What was the world like in those mythic days, when the rival Greek cities of Troy and Mycenae battled for supremacy, and, far to the west, unknown engineers raised the megaliths of Stonehenge? What do we know of even earlier times, when the settled peoples of Europe first replaced their crude stone tools with those made of refined metal and crafted ornaments of beaten copper and gold? The invention of bronze was a remarkable development, permitting the casting of much stronger tools and weapons. Across Europe, the peoples of the Bronze Age forged metal and traded its products, raised monolithic standing stones, practised similar funerary and religious rites, and decorated their products with the same motifs and symbols.

Gods, Heroes and Treasures

The Bronze Age in Europe

Jean-Pierre Mohen

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