The Krakatoa eruption may have been just a child play compared to the volcanic m... [read >>]
Date: 24 March 2008, 05:00 GMT
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The increasing melting of the permafrost, the frozen ground of the north, due to... [read >>]
Date: 22 March 2008, 06:07 GMT
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When the Greeks saw the odd tombs of the pharaohs for the first time, they obser... [read >>]
Date: 21 March 2008, 17:31 GMT
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Walking on two feet is one of the main traits of the human being. A new study pu... [read >>]
Date: 21 March 2008, 04:30 GMT
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They had central heating, baths with all the commodities and bridges and roads t... [read >>]
Date: 20 March 2008, 17:06 GMT
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How much gold did the ancient Egyptian goldsmith process? The historian Hecateus... [read >>]
Date: 20 March 2008, 11:20 GMT
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This is the Turkish World's Wonder. In the residual relief made of tuffs an... [read >>]
Date: 20 March 2008, 09:55 GMT
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If you've enjoyed "Troy", then you could be interested by the fac... [read >>]
Date: 20 March 2008, 04:53 GMT
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There are mummies which can be older than those of the ancient pharaohs. Some ev... [read >>]
Date: 20 March 2008, 03:42 GMT
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In 1974, while digging for a well, the Chinese farmers from a village in the Sha... [read >>]
Date: 19 March 2008, 09:51 GMT
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You may depreciate creeping creatures like snakes and lizards, but the first mam... [read >>]
Date: 19 March 2008, 03:50 GMT
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Placed in the center of Greece, north of the Gulf of Corinth, the sanctuary of A... [read >>]
Date: 18 March 2008, 17:21 GMT
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These people are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stran... [read >>]
Date: 18 March 2008, 16:46 GMT
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Romans created and maintained the greatest ancient Empire for centuries, spreadi... [read >>]
Date: 18 March 2008, 10:37 GMT
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Our closest evolutionary relative was the Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis... [read >>]
Date: 18 March 2008, 03:47 GMT
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West of Sumatra, away from the main trade routes, Mentawai Islands seem ideal fo... [read >>]
Date: 17 March 2008, 17:26 GMT
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When dinosaurs went extinct, the Neozoic (New life age) started. Life evolved to... [read >>]
Date: 17 March 2008, 16:51 GMT
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Today, North America is a land of prairies and oak or coniferous forests. But on... [read >>]
Date: 17 March 2008, 04:40 GMT
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Sharks are amongst the least understood creatures. A complex mythology depicting... [read >>]
Date: 15 March 2008, 07:46 GMT
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Most of the populations of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Polynesia, Micrones... [read >>]
Date: 14 March 2008, 18:16 GMT
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You surely have heard about the Tasmanian devil. You understand why devil, but w... [read >>]
Date: 14 March 2008, 17:46 GMT
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Turtles are grandmas amongst present-day reptiles. And it's not only about ... [read >>]
Date: 14 March 2008, 04:56 GMT
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These were the first flying vertebrates, and the largest: some had a wingspan of... [read >>]
Date: 13 March 2008, 04:06 GMT
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Head hunting was a common practice in many Indigenous societies, from the Jivaro... [read >>]
Date: 12 March 2008, 14:06 GMT
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We know that some carnivorous (theropod) dinosaurs were feathered. Archaeopteryx... [read >>]
Date: 12 March 2008, 03:40 GMT
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One of the most primitive human groups on Earth were the native inhabitants of t... [read >>]
Date: 11 March 2008, 16:51 GMT
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It has been considered that the donkey was domesticated 6,000 years ago, from th... [read >>]
Date: 11 March 2008, 06:02 GMT
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Nowadays, relict populations of the pygmy race are found not only in central Afr... [read >>]
Date: 11 March 2008, 04:02 GMT
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The Cuna Indians inhabit the San Blas Archipelago, a group of 300 islets located... [read >>]
Date: 10 March 2008, 12:33 GMT
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On the southern part of the French Brittany, near the town of Carnac (Karnag) an... [read >>]
Date: 10 March 2008, 09:48 GMT
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The flight-adapted fragile bones of the bats are hard to fossilize. That's ... [read >>]
Date: 10 March 2008, 04:46 GMT
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