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 …
The Cassini probe will fly over this last moon of Saturn and then begin the final phase of its mission which will end with a dive straight on the planet. 127 times! During its long mission that began in 2004, Read More …
The tomb from which the mummies were extracted probably belonged to a magistrate of the 18th dynasty. A tomb of the Pharaonic era in southern Egypt revealed several fabulous discoveries: 6 mummy s, wooden sarcophagi with bright colors and a 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 …
Jan Fröjdman is a Finnish amateur photographer. He is also a space enthusiast, and a skillful user of editing and special effects software. Fascinated by the images of the planet Mars , taken by the HiRise camera mounted on the 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 …
On the night of 6 to 7 March 2017, individuals entered the box of a white rhinoceros of the zoo of Thoiry in France and shot him to recover his horn. Speaking of the conservation of species,poaching was invited to the 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 …
In this system with 7 exoplanets, at least 3 could shelter liquid water on their surface. NASA revealed the discovery by the Spitzer space telescope of 7 exoplanets of mass comparable to Earth, orbiting the star Trappist-1. Three of them Read More …
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