Posted inClassical Archaeology

An Etruscan Domestic Structure Discovered in Corsica, the First Found on the Island, Next to 43 kg of Pottery

Archaeologists from INRAP have discovered the first Etruscan domestic structure (dating from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE) in Corsica during a preventive excavation in the municipality of Ghisonaccia. The discovery occurred in the context of a single-house construction project, conducted from mid-October to early December 2023, on a 605 m² area in the locality […]

Posted inModern Era

Corsican Republic, the small and ephemeral independent state that held the first modern constitution

In 1775, on the occasion of the outbreak of the American War of Independence, a group of students from King’s College (now Columbia University), among whom was Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s future right-hand man, founded a militia which, under the motto God and our right (the same as the British crown Dieu et mon droit […]