Having a fair background in history and archaeology helps to understand present days. I always say, we learn from the past to understand the present. Did you know that second hand clothes shops are attested since the XIII century in France? They existed in Paris and other cities, it’s an urban habit but was surely…

Have you ever wondered how the human waste was managed before the plastic even existed? Let’s consider the waste composition till the 20th century: according to what archaeologists mostly find during excavations, it contained food waste, used clothes made of cotton, linen, wool and leather; shoes made of wood and leather; broken pottery; animal bones…