10 million years ago, a mutation in the ancestor of man, allowed him to metabolize ethyl alcohol 40 times faster. Surprising as it may seem, drunkenness preceded the cultivation of grapes and wheat and even … the appearance of Homo Read More …
Mastodon bones, an ancestor of the now-extinct elephant, suggest that humans have arrived in America 100,000 years earlier than previously thought. The human presence on the American continent would be 115,000 years older than was previously thought! This is the Read More …
A delicate Palaeolithic Venus has just been discovered in the Bryansk region of Russia. The statue is Barely 5 cm high and is carved from the ivory of a woolly mammoth. The new „Palaeolithic Venus“ is dated 23,000 years ago. Read More …
A monetary treasure of more than a hundred pieces has just been discovered on the site of the most severe defeat of Rome, in Germany. A catastrophe which stopped the policy of imperial expansion beyond the Rhine. It is the Read More …
Genetic analyzes carried out on a couple of victims of the eruption of Vesuvius, described as lovers since 1922, indicates that they would be two men. As soon as they were discovered in 1922, two „intertwined“ bodies found in the Read More …
A wreck of the XIII th century has been unearthed in the Bay of Acre, on the northern coast of Israel. It could be a Crusader ship sunk during the capture of the city by the Mamluks in 1291. The Read More …
The discovery in Portugal of a fossilized hominid skull dating back 400 000 years could help to elucidate the origin of the Neanderthals. These ancestors of homo sapiens disappeared about 30 000 years ago. The discovered fossil represents the oldest Read More …
Remains of statues depicted as those of the Pharaohs of the XIXth Dynasty were found in a pit near the temple of Ramses II in the suburbs of Cairo. The discovery was made by a team of Egyptian and German Read More …
When Cortez discovered the Aztec empire in 1519, he discovered that 200,000 people lived on an island in the middle of a lake. Tenochtitlan, today Mexico City, was the largest and most luxuriant city in the world, and this fortress Read More …
Yes, angels and children are connected on many levels. Some think that they are celestial angels that remind us how important laughter, innocence and honesty are. This is very important because open mind and heart will allow us to discover Read More …
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