A study conducted in 9 countries, based on data collected in the census, says that religion will disappear. Over time, the number of people without religious affiliation rose sharply, the study said. Entering data into a complex mathematical model shows that this trend will be the result of the disappearance of religion in the countries [...]
In the winter of 1913, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton launched following advertisement in a British newspaper: “I am looking for people for a perilous journey. Low wages, terrible cold, long hours spent in total darkness. Returning home, uncertain. Honour and recognition in case of success. “The notice referred to an expedition to the South Pole [...]
An international team of researchers led by experts from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of York, discovered the first molecular evidence that Neanderthals not only famous people that cooked plants before eating them, but knew and their nutritional and medicinal values. Until recently, you think of Neanderthals (extinct 24,000 to 30,000 years [...]
Italian archaeologists are convinced that they found the remains of Lisa Gherardini, none other than the woman who served as model for Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world. The skeleton was buried under the floor of a monastery of nuns in Florence, and apparently belonged to Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a [...]
Today is one of the most impressive ruined cities that dates back to antiquity, but the Roman Empire, Palmyra was a large shopping mall, according to archaeological and historical records. Despite a century of research, a key question remained unanswered: How did this city with about 200,000 inhabitants thrive amidst harsh and arid desert Syrian? [...]
Robert Nesta Marley BORN: February 6, 1945, St. Ann, Jamaica DIED: May 11, 1981, Miami, FL In the year 1944, Captain Norval Marley married a young Jamaican girl named Cedalla Booker. On February 6, 1945 at two thirty in the morning their son, Robert Nesta Marley was born in his grandfather’s house. Soon after Bob [...]
It is one of the strangest archaeological discovery ever made: two mummies dating back 3,000 years, made by combining several parts of six different bodies. The results obtained by a new method of isotope dating and DNA analysis, mummies (a male and another female dex) were created from the remains of several people. The [...]
A thorough archaeological survey, conducted since 2007 and has researched every vestige of wall in 15 Chinese provinces, shows that remarkable building dimensions are much larger than historians believed. Wall measuring 21,196.18 km, is the conclusion of the study, the figure surpasses the previous estimates, including the latest advanced the figure of 8850 km. [...]
Digging in the archaeological site known as the City of David, located in East Jerusalem, Israeli researchers have uncovered a series of rooms carved into the rock, and one of them, V-shaped trench, about whose semnficaţie archaeologists have no idea. Three grooves are carved into the limestone floor of one room, with a adâcime about. [...]
Nettles a favorite food of prehistoric people?In Britain, archaeologists have uncovered one of the most valuable accumulation of artifacts dating back 3,000 years and which reveals details of daily life in the Bronze Age people. Objects found in a marshy area to the east of England, County Cambridgeshire, near the town of Peterborough. Archaeological sites [...]